Jérôme Barré, Aminata Dramé and Charles Kouamé among the Orange team managing the Djoliba network in West Africa
The telecom group, present in 18 African markets, has just launched sales of the cross-border fibre optic network “Djoliba”, which connects eight West African cities (Dakar, Conakry, Monrovia, Bamako, Abidjan, Ouagadougou, Accra and Lagos).
17/11/2020 at 19h11, by Quentin Velluet
After 20 years on the continent, where it achieves a good part of its growth, Orange is now relying on its local teams to operate the 10,000 km network, which pools part of its subsidiaries’ existing networks (Sonatel and Orange Côte d’Ivoire) and has required a total investment of $300m.
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