American big tech companies want to become Africa’s next internet providers.
Earlier this month, Amazon acquired an operating license to roll out its low-Earth orbit satellite broadband service, Amazon Leo (earlier called Project Kuiper), in Nigeria. The approval places Amazon in direct competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink, and indirectly against Meta and Google, which are building massive subsea cables.
Starlink already operates at scale in Nigeria, attracting thousands of…

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