Tag: fibre
AfTerFibre Update
This is a short summary of progress and learning from the first couple of months since launching AfTerFibre, a project to map terrestrial fibre projects in Africa. From the beginning AfTerFibre has been designed as an open project both from...
Municipal Broadband Investment in South Africa
There’s an interesting AFP article on the city of Johannesburg’s 1 billion Rand (~105 million USD) contract with Ericsson to deliver municipal broadband infrastructure. In it they quote an anonymous “telecoms expert” who says: …that municipalities were already stretched to...
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 terabits the TEAMS cable to...
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 to be making progress. Thanks...
The Silence of the Lambdas
I have been gradually getting my head around bandwidth purchasing models for undersea cables. In my second contribution to the Mail & Guardian’s innovative Techleader site, I use a real estate metaphor to contrast the various scenarios. Full text of...