By Steve Song, on February 8th, 2008
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“…broadband thrives on a mix of competition and active regulation, to ensure an open context.” This succinct summation comes from an Economist article from a couple of weeks ago entitled “Open up those highways“.
Contrast this with news yesterday that ICASA are apparently deliberately privileging [...]
By Steve Song, on February 4th, 2008
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Mostly in order to keep them all straight in my head, I have compiled a list of African undersea cable initiatives and their features, investors, etc.
Seacom
EASSy
TEAMs
Infraco/AWCC
IWTGC
Cost (USD)
650 million
265 million
82 million
2 billion?
865 million
Length
13,700km
10,000km
4,500 km
13,000 km
14,000 km
Capacity
1.28 terabits/s
640 gigabit/s
40 gigabit/s
3.84 terabits/s
2.5 terabits / s?
Completion
June 2009
2009
April 2009
2010
Q4 [...]
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