By Adedapo Adesanya
Convergence Partners’ subsidiary, inq. (formerly Synergy Communications), has acquired Vodacom Business Africa’s operations in Nigeria.
The company is also planning to acquire Vodacom’s operations in Cameroon and is currently awaiting regulatory approvals to complete the deal.
But for now, the firm now has 100 per cent control of the telco in Nigeria, Zambia and Cote d’Ivoire.
A statement explained that the latest acquisition grows inq.’s regional footprint as a leading enterprise solutions provider to 12 cities in seven countries across Africa including its existing operations in Botswana, Malawi and South Africa with additional investment in Mozambique.
The Managing Director of inq. Nigeria, Mr Valentine Chime, was quoted as saying that, “COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation, and inq. is perfectly positioned to deliver intelligent connectivity through seamless delivery of cloud and digital services and technologies to our clients. We are about simpler, seamless solutions.”
According to him, with operations in major African cities of Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, Gaborone, Lusaka, Ndola, Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu, Abidjan and Johannesburg, the inq. team prides itself on global best practice methodologies customised to local customs in each of the 16 cities, covering different sectors including banking, oil and gas, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), mining, health, real estate, information technologies, public sector and logistics.
“Under the inq. banner, the company will embark on the next phase of building a unified Pan-African cloud and digital service provider, bringing to market a very relevant suite of next-generation technology solutions in the fields of Edge AI, SD-WAN/NFV and Cloud,” he added.
Domiciled in Mauritius, inq. Holdings Limited is a subsidiary of Convergence Partners Communications Infrastructure Fund, a fund dedicated solely to communications infrastructure and related services and technologies across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Aduragbemi Omiyale