03 January 2019
China Telecom Global’s MEA (CTMEA) division is establishing an interconnection network and telecoms hub at Teraco Data Environments in South Africa to support growing traffic demands.
Teraco director Jan Hnizdo says the partnership opens up African opportunities for Chinese content and application providers.
CTMEA first established its network nodes in Teraco’s Tier III+ facilities in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg in 2012.
These provide the interconnecting hubs linking global internet resources into the continent.
The new cooperation allows multinational companies to subscribe to Teraco’s colocation services bundled with China Telecom Global’s ICT and connectivity solutions.
Teraco says the solutions will cater to the increasing demands from the world going into Africa, especially IT companies who are expanding from the Asia Pacific region.
Teraco director Jan Hnizdo says: “Our relationship with China Telecom Global opens up African opportunities for Chinese content and applications, which means a growing network and higher communications traffic in the African region to the East.
“A digital transformation is happening across the sub-Saharan Africa region; with this development clients are able to leverage the most advanced, cost-effective data centre and ICT solutions from both companies.”
China Telecom Global reckons its customers in China and the APAC region will now find it “even more convenient” to subscribe to high- quality colocation and connectivity services following the expanded partnership with Teraco.
CTMEA MD Changhai Liu says: “Our cooperation immediately builds higher confidence among our customers so they can focus on their business operations and leave their hosting, colocation and interconnection requirements to us.”
Liu says his company has been focusing on the African market for many years now, and that closer collaboration with Teraco further “enhances” its competitiveness in the MEA region with a “strong and like-minded” partner in Southern Africa that can be relied on.
This latest development for China Telecom Global follows a separate partnership agreement with Liquid Telecom announced earlier this year.
The two companies will work together to provide network solutions to customers in Africa and Asia.
