This is a short summary of progress and learning from the first couple of months since launching AfTerFibre, a project to map terrestrial fibre projects in Africa. From the beginning AfTerFibre has been designed as an open project both from the point of view of transparency and from the point of view of participation. So [...] [...]
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By Steve Song, on April 3rd, 2009   There’s an interesting AFP article on the city of Johannesburg’s 1 billion Rand (~105 million USD) contract with Ericsson to deliver municipal broadband infrastructure. In it they quote an anonymous “telecoms expert” who says: …that municipalities were already stretched to provide basic utility services, and that the provisioning of telecoms services would simply put additional [...] [...] By Steve Song, on October 16th, 2008 I’ve now moved the African Undersea Cables map to a permanent page that I will update as new information emerges. The latest revision includes updates of: the EASSy cable to reflect its growth to 1.4 terabits the TEAMS cable to reflect its growth to 1.2 terabits (120 gigabits initial) the SAT3 cable to remove the [...] [...] |
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