Seacom Sets Date, Reveals Pricing

By Steve Song, on February 19th, 2008 Print This Post Email This Post

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Seacom has emerged as a clear front runner in the African undersea cable stakes. They are the first initiative to declare a completion date, 17 June 2009 (after which cable company Tyco will incur performance penalties). More impressively they have revealed their [...]

February 19th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Telecom Policy | One comment

African Undersea Cables – Map

By Steve Song, on February 14th, 2008 Print This Post Email This Post

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In the spirit of the previous post consolidating information on African undersea cables, I compiled the image at the right to create a consolidated picture of existing and future cable initiatives around the continent. The relative cable sizes are roughly to scale according to [...]

February 14th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Telecom Policy, Undersea Cables | One comment

African Undersea Cables

By Steve Song, on February 4th, 2008 Print This Post Email This Post

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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 [...]

February 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Telecom Policy, Undersea Cables | One comment