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By Steve Song, on February 19th, 2008
  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 wholesale pricing scheme which looks like this: According to mybroadband.co.za: The company [...] By Steve Song, on February 14th, 2008
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 the advertised capacity of the cables. There is certainly [...] By Steve Song, on February 4th, 2008
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 Cost (USD) 650 million Length Capacity 1.28 terabits/s Completion June 2009 Ownership USA 25% |
 
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