According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, the global mobile subscription total stood at 8.74 billion at the end of 2023, up 2.0% from 8.57 billion a year earlier. Population penetration rose from 108% to 109% over the same period, boosted by the popularity of multiple SIM ownership in many markets ..read more

If traveling to the French Riviera isn’t already on your summer itinerary, we have the perfect excuse to make it so. Datacloud Global Congress 2024 is happening June 5-6, 2024 in Cannes, France ..read more

Last month saw the conclusion of the long-running mega-merger between Orange España and Grupo MASMOVIL in Spain. The EUR19 billion ($20.5 billion) tie-up—first agreed back in July 2022—created a new Spanish market leader that presides over a mobile/fixed broadband subscription base of 37 million. Now known as MasOrange, the 50:50 joint venture looks like a force to be reckoned with. Today, we take a look at the Spanish deals that came into play in the wake of the merger, and see how they could reshape the telecom landscape ..read more

The TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map is our longest-running map project. We started producing submarine cable maps in 1999, and we're still going strong 25 years later. Just for fun, let’s compare the very first edition—called the Global Communications Cable and Satellite Map—to this year’s Submarine Cable Map ..read more

There’s a new conference joining the Datacloud event series next month: Datacloud APAC.  Join us May 6-7, 2024 in Singapore for APAC’d agenda featuring numerous thought leaders from the region’s digital infrastructure community ..read more

Today, I'm breaking down three fundamental components of cloud networks ..read more

The geographic coverage of carriers’ enterprise network services varies significantly. Not every carrier connects to every city in their customers’ networks, and not all services are available everywhere. When narrowing down the universe of potential suppliers, enterprises must first consider how their geographic requirements overlap a potential service provider’s physical network. They then must determine if the specific data services they require are enabled at each of the service providers’ PoPs. The WAN Services Coverage analysis—one section of our Cloud and WAN Research—examines carrier ..read more

Nigeria is home to Africa’s biggest mobile market by some distance, with 217.5 million subscriptions at the end of 2023, up from 209.5 million a year earlier. The next largest African markets at end-2023 were South Africa with 118.9 million subscriptions, and Egypt with 111.1 million, according to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database ..read more

At TeleGeography, we’ve been working on a project called the Interconnection Index. This tool is designed to answer some questions that we’ve found very difficult to answer and quantify in the past. What is the next emerging hub in a specific region? How do various hubs compare to each other? Where should I expand in a certain country besides the largest city? It would be quite challenging to create a one-size-fits-all model that can answer all of these questions appropriately. But we’re still going to try! We’re going to address this problem with data, and—because we’re geography g ..read more

As if three cable faults in the Red Sea weren’t enough of a headache, a series of West African cables were damaged on March 14. The precise location and cause of all of these faults are not known at this time, but let’s look at what we do know ..read more