{"id":623640,"date":"2025-12-22T14:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=623640"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:52:36","slug":"former-south-african-internet-giant-selling-7-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/623640-former-south-african-internet-giant-selling-7-data-centres.html","title":{"rendered":"Former South African Internet giant selling 7 data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Competition Commission has conditionally approved Mauritius-based Open Access Data Centres (OADC) buying seven data centres from NTT Data in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission’s view is that the proposed transaction was unlikely to substantially lessen or prevent competition in any market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To address public interest concerns, the acquiring group has tendered a condition to implement an HDP [historically disadvantaged people] transaction,” the commission said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the transaction, the data centres on sale in South Africa will become the property of OADC Propco and OADC Opco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OADC is a wholly owned subsidiary of another Mauritius-based company, West Indian Ocean Cable Company Holding Company Limited, a long-distance terrestrial and subsea fibre network operator. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OADC already has several data centres located in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town and provides colocation, connectivity and general services to third parties in South Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction will see OADC acquiring seven NTT Data SA data centres. These are located in Bloemfontein, Cape Town, East London, Bryanston, Johannesburg (Parklands), Gqeberha, and Umhlanga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The target assets include all associated infrastructure, equipment, supplier contracts, and lease agreements at each of these locations, as well as the Parklands Data Centre property.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data centres provide similar services to OADC, including colocation services, network and connectivity services, and data centre implementation and management services. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction does not appear to include NTT Data SA’s newest and largest data centre \u2014 the 12MW Johannesburg 1 facility \u2014 which was completed in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NTT Data is South Africa’s oldest data centre operator and among its oldest IT firms, although it has long been under foreign control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally called Dimension Data, the company was founded by Keith McLachlan, Werner Sievers, Jeremy Ord, Peter Neale, and Kevin Hamilton in 1983. It was listed on the JSE in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among its earliest major milestones was becoming the official distributor of Cisco Systems equipment in South Africa in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acquisition by Japanese firm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dimension Data reception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over the next two decades, it would expand its operations into several more countries, including through a number of acquisitions, and list on the London Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By September 2009, its annual revenue was around $4 billion (R33.5 billion). In 2010, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation acquired the company for \u00a32.1 billion (R23 billion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that point, it was the most valuable company listed on the JSE. NTT took the company private, resulting in its delisting from the South African bourse and the London Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NTT kept operating the company under the Dimension Data name until 2023<\/a>, when it was merged with NTT Ltd. and rebranded to NTT Data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The change came after legal challenges against former Dimension Data executives regarding the questionable sale of the company’s The Campus headquarters in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MyBroadband asked the company for more details about the sale of the seven data centres, but it did not immediately provide feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NTT Data is one of South Africa’s oldest data centre operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":585104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3222,100110,22807,1691,80150,90364,102705,78262],"class_list":["post-623640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-competition-commission","tag-data-centre-operators","tag-data-centres","tag-dimension-data","tag-nippon-telegraph-and-telephone-corporation","tag-ntt-data","tag-ntt-data-sa","tag-open-access-data-centres-oadc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623640"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623651,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623640\/revisions\/623651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}