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“Our sustained investment in Africa’s first truly open-access interconnected digital ecosystem ensures continuous growth and readiness to meet the evolving demands of our clients across the continent.”
Chris Wood
WIOCC Group, CEO
Never afraid of disrupting the status quo and operating in new and original ways to support clients’ business decision making and help them develop and expand their businesses across the continent.
At the forefront of investing in new technologies and methodologies to help clients grow their businesses.
Putting clients’ interests at the heart of the way we operate and the way we think.
Understanding that clients are all individuals and that finding bespoke solutions for each client in delivering our goal of building long-term relationships. That is why we always refer to clients and not customers.
A policy of maintaining a programme of investing in our infrastructure, our people and in Africa.
Committed to Africa, with unique local skills and knowledge of how to expand business across the continent.
WIOCC is established to develop Africa's Hyperscale Digital Infrastructure
Development of Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) design & build
WIOCC overturns Africa’s established industry model, with flexible commercial terms for subsea capacity
First non-shareholder service activate and Network Operations Centre (NOC) created
Strategic investments in EIG and WACS
WIOCC registers first subsidiary company in South Africa
Virtual landing point in landlocked Lesotho launched
WIOCC partners with shareholder TelOne to build network across Zimbabwe
IP Connectivity & Metro services added to business portfolio
WIOCC & Dalkom Somalia
win GTB Innovation Award
for first, direct, high-capacity,
international connectivity to
Somalia
Deployment of WIOCC’s own Metro network in Jo’burg (40 PoPs) & Lagos (10 PoPs)
WIOCC registers three new subsidiaries; WIOCC service; Kenya Limited; WIOCC Nigeria & WIOCC UK
Strategic investments in
>60,000km of submarine
cable assets, linking Africa’s
coastline countries to Europe
and rest of the world
WIOCC’s African terrestrial
network extends across
>55,000km connecting over
500 African locations in 30
countries
WIOCC and Epsilon expand on-demand connectivity between Africa and rest of the world
WIOCC network extensions into Nigeria and Zambia
Network increases to 16Tbps design capability
WIOCC network circuits now 100Gbps and beyond
Cross-border connectivity with full OTN capabilities into Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
South Africa network expansion with 30 national & 70 on–net Metro PoPs
WIOCC completes $200 million debt and equity capital raise
WIOCC announces the launch of Open Access Data Centres (OADC)
WIOCC and OADC land Google’s Equiano subsea cable in Lagos, Nigeria
WIOCC Group continues to expand Africa’s digital infrastructure with a new $30 million equity investment by IFC
OADC rolls out Africa’s first, large-scale, open access edge
data centre deployment in South Africa
WIOCC chooses EXA Infrastructure to diversify network connectivity between Africa and Europe
OADC wins the Data Centre/Edge Service Innovation award at
Capacity’s Global Carrier Awards
WIOCC and OADC lands 2Africa cable in Amanzimtoti, Durban, South Africa
WIOCC Group establishes Open Access Technical Services (OATS)
WIOCC Group launches new partner programme to support growth in key territories
WIOCC Group plays a strategic role in addressing subsea cable outages and restores Internet Access across Africa
OADC Texaf - Kinshasa, The DRC’s first Tier-III certified, open-access, carrier-neutral data centre goes live
IFC, Proparco and RMB partner with WIOCC Group with a new $50m new debt facility to expand digital infrastructure in Africa
WIOCC Group establishes Open Access Metro Services (OAMS)
WIOCC Group establishes Open Access Fabric (OAfabric)
Investment in Africa’s digital infrastructure and commitment to corporate social responsibility.