Hooking up Africa

[rpm]

Hooking up Africa

THE VALUE of telecommunications can't be understated. It's now possible to make a phone call in England that's answered by a call centre agent in India or for someone working for a company in the United States to be sitting in a cottage in the Cape winelands but still putting in a full day's work.

 

[Beri]

wow this is great stuff. it is all so new. @sarcasm@

 

[War_Lord]

Very, very old news

 

[Sheepbot]

*yawn*

Just skimmed through the article and realised its not even worth skimming through.

 

[LancelotSA]

One driver for this sudden interest in submarine cable systems is the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Part of governing body Fifa's requirements is the ability to deliver high-definition television signals worldwide. High-definition TV requires extra bandwidth broadcasts from SA than is currently available so new cables are a necessity. Another potential driver is SA's bid to provide a home for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a massive space telescope that would need to send an enormous amount of data to a variety of sites worldwide for analysis.

...and still people ask what benefit the Soccer World cup is going to have and why we are bothering!

 

[Tns]

While we've been promised better and cheaper bandwidth, it would appear that, after years of bickering and false starts, there's finally light at the end of that tunnel.

Light? where?!

I am sure you can get satellite connection that is faster but illegal in this country, and no i am not talking about telkoms vsat crap.