Opening up Affordable Bandwidth in Africa
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Check this...Tracking cables The undersea cable environment around the African continent continues to evolve. Proposed cables appear, disappear, merge. Steve Song from the Shuttleworth Foundation is keeping track. SAT-3 reinforces market monopolies in Africa - Study Ownership of the SAT-3 cable by telecoms incumbents in Africa has reinforced their market positions, APC study finds. Q&A with SEACOM President
Construction of the 13,700 km Sea Cable System (SEACOM, www.seacom.mu) is underway and expected to reach completion by June 2009. The cable will comprise two fibre pairs, connecting South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania and Kenya, to India and Egypt, with an option for connectivity into the UAE and Djibouti. Fibre-for-Africa spoke to SEACOM president Brian Herlihy. |
