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Internet Access News 23 June 2025 - 6 August 2025

Inside Rwanda’s Internet Revolution: How the Nation Is Connecting Remote Villages and Launching Satellites

Inside Rwanda’s Internet Revolution: How the Nation Is Connecting Remote Villages and Launching Satellites

Rwanda’s first internet access occurred around 1996, and by 2000 there were about 5,000 users (less than 0.1% of the population). In 2004 Rwanda privatized Rwandatel and sold it to Terracom, opening the ISP market to competition. Between 2008 and 2010, Rwanda laid over 3,000 km of national fiber backbone across all 30 districts, linking to SEACOM, EASSy and TEAMS…
6 August 2025
Inside the Struggle for Internet Access in Western Sahara: From Political Blackouts to Satellite Lifelines

Inside the Struggle for Internet Access in Western Sahara: From Political Blackouts to Satellite Lifelines

As of January 2024, Western Sahara had about 398,000 internet users, roughly 67.1% of the population, up by 65,000 users (a 19% increase) from 2023. By early 2024 about 87% of the population lived in urban areas (Laayoune, Dakhla, Smara, Boujdour), while about 32.9% remained offline, concentrated in rural or nomadic communities. The median fixed broadband speed in early 2024…
4 August 2025
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State of Internet Access in Lebanon: From Fiber Optics to Starlink Skies

State of Internet Access in Lebanon: From Fiber Optics to Starlink Skies

Lebanon was the first Arab country to introduce the internet in the 1990s, and began offering DSL broadband in 2006. Ogero launched a 40-month national fiber rollout in mid-2018, with about 35% completion by the end of 2019 and a target to reach most households by 2022, slowed by the crisis. By 2025, Lebanon’s fixed broadband speed ranked 142nd worldwide,…
26 July 2025
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Turkey’s Digital Divide: Inside the State of Internet Access and Satellite Connectivity in 2025

Turkey’s Digital Divide: Inside the State of Internet Access and Satellite Connectivity in 2025

Turkey’s fiber backbone length grew from about 425,000 km in 2020 to over 605,000 km by 2024. Fiber broadband subscribers reached around 8.1 million by 2024, and fiber accounted for about 39.4% of fixed broadband subscriptions at end-2024. Turkey’s 4.5G network, launched in 2016, provides nationwide coverage and had over 87 million 4.5G users by 2024. Commercial 5G has not…
10 July 2025
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Namibia’s Digital Frontier: How Internet Access and Starlink Are Rewiring the Nation’s Future

Namibia’s Digital Frontier: How Internet Access and Starlink Are Rewiring the Nation’s Future

<li Namibia had about 1.6 million internet users by early 2024, roughly 62% of the population, up from 53% in early 2023. <li The 2012 landing of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) at Swakopmund dramatically expanded international capacity and reduced latency. <li Equiano landed in Namibia in 2022–2023, delivering up to 20 times more international bandwidth and adding redundancy…
8 July 2025
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Connected Deserts: The Digital Landscape of Internet Access in Oman (Including Satellite Internet)

Connected Deserts: The Digital Landscape of Internet Access in Oman (Including Satellite Internet)

As of January 2024, Oman had 4.58 million internet users, representing 97.8% of the population. Median mobile data speed was 71.3 Mbps and fixed broadband speed 68.4 Mbps in January 2024. By end-2024, about 90% of housing units had fiber or high-speed broadband availability. Omantel held roughly 48% of mobile subscribers in 2024, Ooredoo about 45–50%, and Vodafone Oman around…
4 July 2025
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Internet Access in Norway: A Comprehensive Overview

Internet Access in Norway: A Comprehensive Overview

Norway reaches near-universal online access, with about 99% of residents online, 99.1% of homes able to receive at least 100 Mbps, and 96% gigabit availability as of 2024. Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH/FTTP) is the fixed broadband backbone, with over 70% of households on fiber delivering symmetric speeds from hundreds of Mbps up to multi-gigabit. As of 2023–2024, fixed broadband speeds average 140–142…
28 June 2025
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Internet Access in Malawi: Infrastructure, Penetration, and Future Outlook

Internet Access in Malawi: Infrastructure, Penetration, and Future Outlook

The national fiber-optic backbone, about 1,300 km long, was completed in 2018 by Huawei to connect major cities and border links in Malawi. In July 2023, ESCOM linked Malawi to Tanzania’s national broadband backbone, a move expected to lower international bandwidth costs and extend connectivity to rural areas. In 2023, Liquid Intelligent Technologies launched a new fiber route between Zambia…
27 June 2025
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Tanzania’s Internet Revolution: From 2G Villages to Starlink Skies

Tanzania’s Internet Revolution: From 2G Villages to Starlink Skies

As of January 2024, 21.82 million Tanzanians used the internet, a penetration rate of 31.9% of the population. By end-2024, active internet subscriptions reached 48 million, up 16% from the previous quarter, driven by multi-device data use. By December 2024, there were 25.6 million mobile broadband subscriptions (3G/4G/5G), while over 22 million users remained on 2G-only services. 4G coverage reached…
23 June 2025
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  • RadixArk Spins Out from SGLang with $400M Valuation Amid AI Inference Market Boom
    January 21, 2026, 7:34 PM EST. RadixArk, the commercial spinout from the open source AI tool SGLang, has secured a valuation of approximately $400 million in a round led by Accel. SGLang, originally developed in UC Berkeley's Ion Stoica lab, helps companies like xAI and Cursor run AI models faster and more cost-effectively by optimizing inference processing - the phase where AI models make predictions. RadixArk's CEO, Ying Sheng, a former xAI engineer, leads the startup as it transitions the core development team from academia to venture-backed enterprise. This mirrors a wider trend in AI infrastructure, with other projects like vLLM also evolving into high-value startups, reflecting strong investor interest in tools that reduce server costs in AI operations.
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