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Converged open-access digital infrastructure for Africa

“We are driving Africa’s digital transformation and creating an environment in which all Africans can take advantage of world-class technology developments to build better lives, better businesses and a better world.”

Chris Wood

CEO

Innovative

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.

Leading Edge

At the forefront of investing in new technologies and methodologies to help clients grow their businesses.

Client Centric

Putting clients’ interests at the heart of the way we operate and the way we think.

Tailored Offerings

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.

Continual Investment

A policy of maintaining a programme of investing in our infrastructure, our people and in Africa.

Pan-African

Committed to Africa, with unique local skills and knowledge of how to expand business across the continent.

>$ 0 m
in digital infrastructure assets since 2007
>$ 0 m
planned investment over the next five years in digital infrastructure
0 +
points-of-presence (data centres, internet exchange points, edge facilities, cable landing stations, connectivity exchanges)
0
OADC core data centres in Nigeria, DR Congo and South Africa
> 0
OADC edge data centres in South Africa

Fibre pair ownership

on Equiano and 2Africa
| in South Africa, Nigeria
and other markets

Major Operator

on all other major subsea networks serving Africa (WACS, SAT3, GLO, EIG, DARE, TEAMS, SEACOM)

Group Key Milestones

2008

WIOCC is established to develop Africa's Hyperscale Digital Infrastructure

2008

Development of Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) design & build

2009
WIOCC overturns Africa’s established industry model, with flexible commercial terms for subsea capacity
2010

First non-shareholder service activate and Network Operations Centre (NOC) created

2011

Strategic investments in EIG and WACS

2013

WIOCC registers first subsidiary company in South Africa

2015

Virtual landing point in landlocked Lesotho launched

2015

WIOCC partners with shareholder TelOne to build network across Zimbabwe

2015

IP Connectivity & Metro services added to business portfolio

2015

WIOCC & Dalkom Somalia
win GTB Innovation Award
for first, direct, high-capacity,
international connectivity to
Somalia

2016

Deployment of WIOCC’s own Metro network in Jo’burg (40 PoPs) & Lagos (10 PoPs)

2017

WIOCC registers three new subsidiaries; WIOCC service; Kenya Limited; WIOCC Nigeria & WIOCC UK

2018

 Strategic investments in
>60,000km of submarine
cable assets, linking Africa’s
coastline countries to Europe
and rest of the world

2018

 WIOCC’s African terrestrial
network extends across
>55,000km connecting over
500 African locations in 30
countries

2019

WIOCC and Epsilon expand on-demand connectivity between Africa and rest of the world

2019

WIOCC network extensions into Nigeria and Zambia

2020

Network increases to 16Tbps design capability

2020
WIOCC network circuits now 100Gbps and beyond
2020

Cross-border connectivity with full OTN capabilities into Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe

2020
South Africa network expansion with 30 national & 70 on–net Metro PoPs
2021

WIOCC completes $200 million debt and equity capital raise

2021

WIOCC announces the launch of Open Access Data Centres (OADC)

2022

WIOCC and OADC land Google’s Equiano subsea cable in Lagos, Nigeria

2022

WIOCC Group continues to expand Africa’s digital infrastructure with a new $30 million equity investment by IFC

2022

OADC rolls out Africa’s first, large-scale, open access edge
data centre deployment in South Africa

2022

WIOCC chooses EXA Infrastructure to diversify network connectivity between Africa and Europe

2022

OADC wins the Data Centre/Edge Service Innovation award at
Capacity’s Global Carrier Awards

2023

WIOCC and OADC lands 2Africa cable in Amanzimtoti, Durban, South Africa

2023

WIOCC Group Establishes Open Access Technical Services (OATS) 

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Media

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