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Tech giants take on mobile operators in local data market

Estelle Akofio-Sowah, the head of Google's fibre infrastructure company CSquared gives a presentation on the firm's deployment across Africa. [Courtesy]

A fresh race to bring broadband connectivity to the millions of people in Africa excluded from the Internet is heating up between giant technology companies and local mobile network operators with potentially big wins for consumers.

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