eFive talks up SAex cable between SA and the west

Money probably 'disappeared' somewhere ... who knows

But things are looking bright for SACS cable which is set to go live within a matter of months. AngolaCables seems very credible and is behind the Angola INX which recently started moving traffic - http://www.angonix.net/about-angonix/statistics/

So it looks like there is some positive developments ahead with regards to a Southern Africa to Brazil link, irrespective of what happens to SAex

The problem with SACS is that it has no SA landing point. SO presumably ISP's will start routing to Angola soon (currently it all goes via the UK) via the likes of WACS, and then from Angola it will go to Brazil via SACS. Still a much, much better route to the US East coast and South America, than via Europe
 
How broad is the SAex cable? I heard it's the width which counts but here we need it to be long.
 
AndrewAlston said:
I'd dispute your statement that SEACOM has been the only one with a noticeable impact. SEACOM did bring the price down as a first start, however, the impact of competition with WACS and EASSY then in turn brought SEACOM's pricing down to a lesser degree.
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SEACOM has only used 10% of available bandwidth, there is room to bring down prices down with competition.
 
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