By Steve Song, on September 25th, 2008
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The undersea cable environment around the African continent continues to evolve. Proposed cables appear, disappear, merge. A testament to the competitive environment. In this latest update, I have added the MaIN OnE cable which appears to be making progress. Thanks to Abi Jagun for finding [...]
By Steve Song, on July 10th, 2008
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So what might the undersea cable environment for sub-Saharan Africa look like by the end of 2010? Perhaps it will look a bit like this:
If anyone has a proposed map for Uhurunet and Main One, I would love to know about it.
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By Steve Song, on July 6th, 2008
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I have been gradually getting my head around bandwidth purchasing models for undersea cables. In my second contribution to the Mail & Guardian’s innovative Techleader site, I use a real estate metaphor to contrast the [...]
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