The West African Cable System (Wacs) will land on SA shores early in April, bringing the construction phase of the project to an end. However, its commercial launch has been pushed back by a few
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The design capacity of the East Africa Submarine System (Eassy), a submarine cable that connects countries along Africa’s east coast, has been bumped up to nearly 5Tbit/s. It’s the second time the capacity has been upped
MWeb CEO Rudi Jansen says the Naspers-owned Internet service provider is expecting Telkom to begin offering uncapped broadband soon over its fixed-line network. But he says he’d welcome
Internet Solutions is betting big on telecommunications infrastructure, with plans to participate in a wireless spectrum auction later this year that could result in it building a national wireless broadband network
Baharicom has put a refuted speculation that the R5,4bn Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) cable is no longer coming to SA’s shores. The Ace investor says SA is still part of the project plan
Doubts have been cast over whether France Telecom’s Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) undersea cable will make it as far south as SA. Latest talk is that the cable, which
An undersea fibre-optic cable laid along the West African coast came ashore in Namibia on Tuesday, allowing high bandwidth connectivity for the country and its neighbours
Yet another undersea cable has been commissioned for the coast of Africa. When it’s built next year, it will bring total capacity encircling the continent to more than 20,2Tbit/s. In the year 2000 Africa’s total international
State-owned Broadband Infraco, created by government to bring down national telecommunications costs, is finally launching commercial services next week. But the company’s mandate has already
Construction of a new, high-capacity submarine telecommunications cable system linking SA, Angola, Nigeria and Brazil should start early next year and be ready for service some time in 2012. That’s the word from Lawrence Mulaudzi, MD of eFive Telecoms, the SA-based company that is driving the project.