Consumers can look forward to even cheaper broadband prices, with many new undersea cables set to come online within the next 18 months.
Seacom has pledged R100-million in additional infrastructure in SA to meet the continuous growth in demand for broadband services and applications.
Seacom has signed a master services agreement with a Mozambican service provider to provide access to the largest fibre-optic network in Mozambique.
Seacom on Wednesday announced that its broadband services had been extended to Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
While the arrival of the Seacom cable is great news for bandwidth starved SA, the launch at Neotel’s Midrand data centre was a damp squib.
Seacom on Thursday announced that its 17Â 000km submarine fibre-optic cable has been completed and commissioned.
Somali pirates have once again delayed Seacom’s cable installation plans, shifting the switch-on date to late July.
Telecoms operators have signed a deal that would pave the way for the laying of South Africa’s undersea cable around West Africa to Europe.
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/ 19 February 2008
Light is all its going to take to connect South Africans and the rest of Africa to Europe and Asia via the Middle East by 2010. International contractor Seacom is building and will own and operate a high-capacity undersea cable that will stretch over approximately 17 000km, providing cheap bandwidth at high volumes.
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/ 14 November 2007
African investors on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the construction of Seacom’s undersea broadband cable. The additional bandwidth provided by the cable, which will cost $650-million and cover more than 15 000km, will also be a catalyst for productivity.