MTN, Liquid Telecom partnership offers largest fixed, wireless footprint in Africa

25 Aug 2015

The MTN Group and Liquid Telecom have partnered to offer customers access to the largest fixed and wireless footprint across the continent. The partnership, which covers wholesale, carrier-to-carrier, high speed broadband, enterprise and fixed data services, enables access to each other's fixed and wireless networks in countries on the African continent, where one party may not currently have presence.

According to Liquid Telecom, the partnership is in response to the increasing demand from businesses across West Africa for the company's broadband service.

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The partnership enables Liquid Telecom to offer businesses gigabit-speed services accompanied by negotiated SLAs and consistently excellent 24/7 customer service. The additional countries that Liquid Telecom will now have a presence in are Benin, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Republic, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan and Swaziland.

The agreement with Liquid Telecom gives MTN the ability to service its multinational enterprise customers in Burundi, DRC, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

MTN says the partnership reaffirms its commitment to enable and inspire the growth of its enterprise customers across Africa and the rest of the world, as well as furthers its ambition to be the ICT partner of choice for customers looking to expand geographically.

Liquid Telecom's fibre network spans 20,000 km across Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe and is complemented by its satellite service for rural areas. While MTN boasts an extensive connectivity footprint, with points of presence for its Global MPLS network in 22 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Djibouti, UK, Netherlands, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Cyprus, Benin, Guinea Conakry, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana.

Together, they will be able to provision networks with complex requirements faster and sell each other's wholesale, carrier, enterprise and fixed services on the combined network - providing more choice to businesses of all sizes, competitively.