FiberOne Takes Nigeria's Broadband Vision to Africa Tech Festival 2025: Connecting Africa's Digital Future
When Africa’s largest technology gathering convened at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) from November 11 to 13, 2025, one message resonated louder than ever: Africa’s digital transformation depends on connecting the unconnected.
And FiberOne Broadband was there, not just as an attendee, but as a voice championing Nigeria’s place in the continent’s broadband revolution.
Africa's Tech Leaders Converge on Cape Town
The Africa Tech Festival 2025, hosted by Informa Tech, brought together over 400 tech leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and innovators from across the continent and beyond. The three-day summit provided a crucial platform for addressing Africa’s most pressing digital challenges, including connectivity gaps, infrastructure deficits, and the urgent need for sustainable and scalable broadband solutions.
For Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy with a population of 234 million, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Despite internet broadband penetration reaching approximately 49.34% as of September 2025, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission, over 127 million Nigerians still lack reliable broadband access. The disparity is even starker in rural and underserved communities, where connectivity remains a distant promise rather than a present reality.
This is the gap FiberOne is determined to close.
Putting Nigeria on the Broadband Map
Leading FiberOne’s delegation was Lanre Ore, CEO of FiberOne Broadband, whose vision for a digitally inclusive Nigeria has driven the company’s rapid expansion across Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ilorin, and beyond. Joining him were Kenny Joda, Head of Public Relations; Ibrahim Salami, Head of Service Delivery; and Uche Chijioke, Creative Lead: a team united by one mission: to demonstrate that Nigeria’s broadband challenges are not insurmountable, but solvable through innovation, partnership, and unwavering commitment.
“Africa Tech Festival reinforced what we already know at FiberOne,” Ore shared during the event. “Connectivity isn’t a luxury; it’s the foundation upon which education, healthcare, commerce, and innovation are built. Nigeria’s digital future depends on stakeholders across government, private sector, and civil society coming together to prioritize last-mile connectivity.”
Throughout the three-day event, FiberOne’s team engaged in critical conversations about fiber-optic infrastructure deployment, sustainable network expansion models, and public-private partnerships that can accelerate broadband penetration in underserved areas. These discussions directly inform FiberOne’s strategy to deploy fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology to communities that have historically been overlooked by traditional ISPs.
The Nigeria Opportunity: Challenges and Possibilities
Nigeria’s broadband landscape presents both immense challenges and extraordinary opportunities. According to the World Bank, Nigeria needs approximately 125,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cable for comprehensive nationwide coverage. As of 2025, only about 35,000 kilometers have been deployed; meaning the work has just started.
FiberOne has contributed over 3,900 kilometers to this national infrastructure, but the company’s leadership recognizes that closing the connectivity gap requires more than laying cable. It demands:
- Infrastructure Innovation: Moving beyond traditional deployment models to explore cost-effective, scalable solutions for difficult-to-reach areas.
- Policy Support: Working with regulators like the Nigerian Communications Commission to streamline right-of-way approvals, reduce deployment costs, and incentivize investment in underserved communities.
- Community Engagement: Building trust and awareness in communities where broadband access is new, ensuring adoption matches availability.
- Sustainable Business Models: Creating pricing structures that make reliable internet affordable for Nigerian families and small businesses without compromising service quality.
These were precisely the topics FiberOne’s team explored at Africa Tech Festival: learning from continental peers, sharing Nigerian insights, and forging partnerships that will accelerate progress.
Networking, Innovation, and Sustainability
Beyond panels and presentations, Africa Tech Festival provided invaluable networking opportunities. FiberOne’s delegation connected with:
- Infrastructure providers exploring innovative deployment technologies
- Policy makers championing regulatory reforms that enable faster broadband expansion
- Technology partners offering solutions for network optimization and customer experience enhancement
- Fellow African ISPs facing similar challenges and pioneering creative solutions
- Impact investors seeking opportunities to support digital inclusion initiatives
The conversations extended to sustainability, a critical concern as Africa’s tech sector grows. FiberOne’s commitment to deploying energy-efficient, reliable fiber infrastructure aligns perfectly with the festival’s emphasis on sustainable development.
Product Demonstrations and Technical Showcases
Africa Tech Festival also featured extensive product demonstrations showcasing cutting-edge technologies shaping the continent’s digital future. From 5G innovations to satellite connectivity solutions, from AI-powered network management to IoT applications, the exhibition halls buzzed with possibility.
For FiberOne, these showcases provided insights into emerging technologies that can enhance service delivery, improve network reliability, and create new value-added services for customers. The company’s delegation evaluated partnerships and technologies that align with FiberOne’s vision of delivering truly unlimited, high-speed broadband that empowers Nigerians to work, learn, and thrive in the digital economy.
What This Means for Nigeria's Digital Future
FiberOne returned from Cape Town energized and equipped with insights, partnerships, and renewed commitment to Nigeria’s broadband revolution. The connections forged, lessons learned, and strategies developed will directly inform the company’s 2026 expansion plans and bring reliable fiber broadband to thousands more Nigerian homes and businesses.
But FiberOne can’t do this alone. The mission to close Nigeria’s digital connectivity gap requires stakeholders across the ecosystem to step up:
For Government: Streamline regulations, reduce right-of-way costs, and incentivize infrastructure investment in underserved areas.
For Businesses: Partner with ISPs to provide connectivity solutions for employees and communities, recognizing that digital inclusion drives economic growth.
For Communities: Protect telecommunications infrastructure, support field operators, and embrace the opportunities connectivity creates.
For Nigerians: Choose providers like FiberOne that are committed to genuine unlimited service, transparent pricing, and long-term investment in Nigeria’s digital future.
Join FiberOne's Mission: Connect to More
Africa Tech Festival 2025 reinforced a fundamental truth: connectivity is the great equalizer. With reliable internet access, a student in a remote Nigerian town can access the same educational resources as one in Lagos. An entrepreneur in an underserved community can compete in global markets. A healthcare worker can access life-saving information instantly.
This is the future FiberOne is building—one connection, one community, one opportunity at a time.
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Our Vision: Access Creates Possibility
At FiberOne, we believe the internet isn’t just about entertainment or convenience; it’s about reinventing the future by creating access to possibilities. When we connect a home, we’re enabling:
Education: Students accessing world-class learning resources
Innovation: Entrepreneurs building the next generation of Nigerian businesses
Economic Growth: Communities participating in the digital economy
Opportunity: Individuals discovering and pursuing their potential
This is what drove FiberOne to the Africa Tech Festival. This is what drives us every day as we deploy fiber across Nigeria. And this is what will drive us to achieve 70% broadband penetration in our more coverage areas by 2027.
The question isn’t whether Nigeria can become a digitally connected nation. The question is: Will you be part of making it happen?
Connect with FiberOne. Connect to more.
