A number of people have asked for a chronological version of the African Undersea Cables map. Here’s one I made recently. Feel free to use, adapt, improve. You can download the full presentation (in OpenOffice format) from Slideshare.
African Undersea Cables — A History
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This is pretty Awesome to see, Amazing how things can just started to grow exponentially after seacom. Alot of people i meat complain that we will never have decent internet (childish pessimism) theyt must have VERY bad memories as i can unfortunately remember what BAD actually was 4kb per second dial up in a small karoo town…
Things are going forward and fast, we must also remember laying the underseas cable is the easy bit. The hard part is laying the cables in the ground as it takes much more time.
Awesome blog!
Awesome stuff Steve! and awesome blog as well.
Hope you don’t mind me adding you to my blog roll 🙂
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Very interesting to see…