The telecommunications industry in South Africa and the rest of the continent is on the cusp of a fibre and mobile broadband boom, as network operators scramble to meet the demand for video, cloud applications and mobile solutions among consumers
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The second fault in Seacom’s submarine cable has been fixed. Customers are seeing their circuits come up and traffic routing returning to normal, the Mauritius-headquartered company said on Monday
Seacom has moved to 100G optical network transport technology, and lit up an additional 500Gbit/s of capacity on its subsea cable that connects Africa with Europe. The company said it made substantial investments
Seacom has completed the repair of its submarine cable system in the Red Sea, a month after it was broken. But the company has now identified a secondary fault, which will require four days of “service-affecting” repair work next week. “The
Seacom said at the weekend that an outage is affecting services to some clients. The problem, on segment 15 of the Seacom submarine cable system, is located slightly west of Djibouti in the Red Sea and occurred on 8 April at about 9pm South
Naspers-owned Internet video-on-demand service ShowMax should now be much quicker and more responsive in Kenya. This is after the company partnered with Seacom to put caching servers on the ground in the East African nation. The servers are located
Seacom, the company that built the first subsea telecommunications cable along Africa’s east coast, has said it plans to make acquisitions that will give it direct access to metropolitan fibre infrastructure
Mobile may dominate as an access medium for the Internet in South Africa, but it’s fixed lines that are consuming most of the data traffic – and they will continue to do so. That’s according to Seacom chief development officer Suveer
Seacom has partnered with Indoi to build a new, US$150mtelecommunications cable system to connect Mauritius to Africa and the rest of the world. IOX Cable, a subsidiary of Indoi, has signed a
Pan-African telecommunications operator, Seacom, which is best known for building an undersea fibre cable along Africa’s east coast seven years ago, has gone live with a point of presence in Slough, about 30km west