Undersea Cables Update
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…
Opening Spectrum Above 275GHz
As I am getting my head around spectrum issues, I have found Michael Marcus’s blog, Spectrum Talk, tremendously useful. On the weekend he posted a link to a consultation that Ofcom (the UK communications regulator)…
Opening Spectrum in South Africa
It’s time to get down to business and start developing a civil society position on spectrum management in South Africa. The key purpose of spectrum management is to maximise the value that society gains from…
Sub-saharan Africa Undersea Cables in 2010 – take 7
The undersea cable environment around the African continent continues to evolve. Proposed cables appear, disappear, merge. A testament to the competitive environment. In this latest update, I have added the MaIN OnE cable which appears…
Mesh Potato gets cooking
Work has finally begun on the Mesh Potato. The Shuttleworth Foundation has completed agreements with David Rowe and Elektra and they are now hard at work on the production of a Mesh Potato proof-of-concept. David…