Google and Facebook's undersea cables won't help increase consumer broadband speeds

[mylesillidge]

What the Google and Facebook undersea cables really mean for South Africans

The Equiano and 2Africa undersea cables will substantially increase South Africa’s international Internet capacity but won’t increase consumer broadband speeds or substantially decrease prices — despite Google’s claims to the contrary.

When completed, Google’s Equiano cable will add 144 Tbps to South Africa’s undersea data capacity, and Facebook’s 2Africa will offer 180 Tbps on key parts of its system.

 

[Dan C]

Bring it on. The more the better.

 

[Swa]

Some sanity at least and not the usual hype that comes with these projects. We don't need for bandwidth to be any cheaper at this point that will only benefit 2% of the population. We need entry prices to get cheaper and networks are not playing along except for Telkom.