To develop the country’s internet ecosystem and build a dedicated connectivity community, the London Internet Exchange (LINX) has launched a 12-month no-charge promotion for all services at its new Ghana Internet Exchange Point, LINX Accra.
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.
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 adoptions through 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.
“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,” the Head of Existing Business for LINX, Inga Turner, said.
Ghana is one of West Africa’s fastest-growing digital markets, with over 70 per cent of the country’s 25 million people accessing the internet, and 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.
LINX has had a 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.