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October 12, 2009 •
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There are at least nine undersea telecommunication cables (including SAT3 and SAFE) that will connect various parts of Sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world by the end of ...
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July 29, 2009 •
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Nairobi, (IT News Africa)–SAFARICOM, the listed telecoms operator in Kenya will Thursday do live testing of the TEAMS undersea cable, according to the Chief Executive Officer Michael Joseph...
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July 22, 2009 •
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Four firms have lost their shareholding in the Kenyan undersea fibre optic cable TEAMs project after failing to pay for their 5% stake...
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June 24, 2009 •
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The increase in pirate activity during April and May 2009, both in terms of intensity and geographical coverage, necessitated a change in SEACOM’s cable installation plans which resulted in a delay in the ready for service date from 27 June 2009 to 23 July ...
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June 15, 2009 •
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THE long-awaited East African Marine System (TEAMS) fibre optic undersea cable, expected to cut telecommunications costs across the continent has officially been launched in Kenya. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki who launched the 5,000-kilometer cable which...
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June 11, 2009 •
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In a press release, France Telecom has announced that ACE (Africa Coast to Europe) submarine cable system, which was intially planned to stretch from France to Gabon, will now be extended to South Africa connecting all countries along the West coast of...
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May 28, 2009 •
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Undersea high-bandwidth fibre cable provider, SEACOM, has announced that critical portions of land infrastructure needed to connect its new African fibre data cable, have been completed on schedule...
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April 28, 2009 •
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Seacom and Interoute have signed an agreement, which will see the connection of the African fibre network provider’s 17,000 kilometre intercontinental submarine fibre optic network cable to Interoute’ s pan-European fibre optic network...
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March 20, 2009 •
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Comments Off on Tata Communications closes cable deal with Seacom
Tata Communications has closed a deal with Seacom to be come an anchor tenant customer on the latter’s undersea cable system. This deal will allow Tata Communications to provide fully integrated network services from South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania and...
