Somaliland: Riding the wave of the digital revolution

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The Telecom sector in Somaliland has long been hailed as a success story in Africa from its modest beginning to becoming a very diverse and competitive marketplace in bringing in new innovative and diverse services in its multiple facets, including the highly effective mobile money services.






International Submarine cables

The arrival of ‘international’ submarine cables will forever change the ICT terrain for the better. As the quality of connectivity improves in all networks, a new dawn for Cloud-based platforms for cheaper and more innovative services will be possible. New Data Centres will emerge to provide value-added services such as secure ‘managed services’ and ‘collocations’. International content providers such as YouTube, Facebook and others will utilize these services to enhance user experiences.


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State-of-the-art unified fibre optic backbone

The network infrastructure deployed in Somaliland is designed with redundant paths for traffic to ensure network connectivity at all times. The metropolitan network (metro) within Hargeisa has three redundant rings that cover most of the city, and there are also metro networks in Borama, Berbera, Burco and expanding to Erigavo, Lasaanod and beyond.



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Rollout in full swing

Infrastructure operators specialized in the design, construction, operation and managing of Somaliland's fiber optic backbone and metro networks are busy rolling out the network throughout the country.


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SomCable and Ethio Telecom exchange traffic on their respective routes, and industry sources confirmed that there is also a cross-border fibre optic cable at the 100 Gbps level.

Once the cables in Berbera are completed and operating, Berbera could become a major alternative route for Ethiopia to increase the resilience of its international connectivity.

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Starlink is a satellite broadband service run by Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX. It is supported by a network of over 3,000 low-earth orbit satellites which SpaceX has been launching in batches since 2019.

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Wingu also announced that its carrier-neutral data centre in Berbera, Somaliland is seeing strong interest from both local and international customers.

As one example, the PEACE cable, which is hosted in the facility on behalf of the local landing party, is already a customer and is providing its Ethiopian customers with additional capacity options.

Wingu adds that it is excited by the potential of the market which is growing rapidly following the liberalisation of the country’s telecoms sector and the entry of Safaricom as a second mobile network operator.
 

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