The West African Cable System has suffered another break – at the worst possible time for South Africa, with many people now relying on home broadband connections to work.
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The contribution to Remgro’s headline earnings from CIVH – the parent company of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa – amounted to a loss of R197-million in the six months ended 31 December 2019.
Seacom, said on Monday that it has reached an agreement with India’s Tata Communications to offer high-speed connectivity between Africa, Europe and Asia.
Seacom said on Wednesday that the submarine cable system it operates along Africa’s east coast is experiencing a “service-affecting outage”. Update: Services were restored on Wednesday afternoon.
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Seacom has “lit up” more towns along the N1 route between Johannesburg and Cape Town with fibre broadband options, the telecommunications company said on Thursday.
Seacom has launched a point of presence in Bloemfontein for business customers.
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Seacom, which built the first subsea broadband cable along Africa’s east coast 10 years ago, is interested in acquiring capacity in Google’s new, high-capacity Equiano cable along the west coast to Europe.