SEACOM strengthens position as Africa’s leading Internet enabler

SEACOM is showing strong growth in the global and African wholesale and retail telecom markets, this according to independent statistics from the Internet performance management company, Dyn.

Dyn’s data shows that SEACOM is rapidly climbing the IPv4 Internet rankings as it connects more customers across Africa.

According to Dyn, SEACOM is second in terms of the overall rate of customer growth in Africa’s market and has shown strong growth as a backbone, retail and wholesale provider in both the continent and globally.

The scores are based on the number of IP addresses an IP network provides transit for, in addition to its own.

“We have seen steady growth in our wholesale market as operators and ISPs across Africa have pushed their data services and increased their use of SEACOM to manage their international upstream requirements,” said Robert Marston, SEACOM’s Global Head of Product.

“We expect this trend to continue as our customers replace their transmission links and off-continent transit provider ports with regional transit directly off our backbone.

“Our recently-launched retail offerings in markets such as South Africa and Kenya are also contributing to the rise of our rankings in the retail segment,” Marston concludes.

SEACOM is the only African service provider ranked in the top ten wholesale service providers in Africa, with all the other nine service providers being of European or North American origin (see below).