INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY

CONNECTIVITY

This is an important step for building community engagement and driving the localisation of Internet traffic in Ghana and West Africa.

Ghana is one of West Africa’ s fastestgrowing digital markets, with over 70 % of the country, 25 million people, accessing the Internet. Accra is connected to six submarine cables to provide international connectivity to the country. The market is also attracting significant data centre investment with new facilities opening every few months.

As part of its growth drive, LINX Accra aims to attract major global Internet carriers and content delivery networks to keep more traffic local to Ghana, building relationships between local networks and encouraging early adoption through the promotion.

A key aspect is growing the local networking and peering community to reduce Ghana’ s reliance on international routing, improve latency and cut costs for networks and end- users across the country.

Inga Turner, Head of Existing Business for LINX, said:“ Ghana’ s connectivity ecosystem is growing fast and our goal, through the promotion, is to remove early barriers and encourage local ISPs to join and exchange traffic from the start. We’ ve seen in other African markets that once the local community grows, global networks follow, so this is an important step for building community engagement and driving the localisation of Internet traffic in Ghana and West Africa.”

LINX Accra went live at the end of 2025, providing a regional interconnection point and a platform for networks to meet and exchange traffic, available from PAIX, Onix and the new Digital Realty data centre launched at the end of last year.

It follows the successful growth in Kenya, building on a similar promotion for LINX Mombasa and LINX Nairobi, which helped establish and expand the connectivity ecosystem, attracting major global networks and content providers to keep traffic local. •

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