Nepad plans $2bn cable mega project

[mcleodd]

Africa could soon have a new, US$2bn submarine telecommunications cable encircling the continent and connecting SA and other African countries with Europe, India and the Americas. The proposed system, the first stage of which should go live in 2009, will have a design capacity of 3 800Gbit/s.

Full story here:

http://www.fmtech.co.za/telecoms/nepad-plans-2bn-cable-mega-project/

 

[feo]

Yawn.

BTW Ivy looks like she about to drop an f-bomb in that pic.

 

[Ou grote]

Published by Duncan McLeod

From the clan McLeod?

Is this going to take forever?

 

[Skip]

So if the contract has been made, who is laying the cable and who are the 70% private sector owners? Ivy? Lyndall? Anyone?

 

[ldmelsa]

Yawn.

BTW Ivy looks like she about to drop an f-bomb in that pic.

 

[Alchemist]

Yawn.

BTW Ivy looks like she about to drop an f-bomb in that pic.

Ivy: "Quick! I is turtling! I think I is actually touching cloth!"

 

[ic]

Could this be the 'we have something much more nefarious planned' that Stalin-Mafole was hinting about a few weeks ago?

Just waiting now for Poison Ivy to figure out that 30% < 51% before she coughs up another doughnut - although based on that photo it does look like she is admiring a silent but violent she might have let loose...

Anyone else have any doubts that this NEPAD cable system will be operational sometime in 2009?

 

[Kasyx]

"Dey take aweh owa manopoli?! Eish!"

 

[FacELesS.]

So many cable projects , yet none seem to materialise. When will we actually see one of these projects in physical form noone really knows.

 

[Praeses]

From the clan McLeod?

Is this going to take forever?

lol ^5 man

 

[CirclingTheSun]

50% locally owned?

 

[risingtide]

12 African governments cannot come up with 160mill US$ each to get this project going and join the world? That is about 1 billion Rand, i.e. 2% of the cost of the arms deal.

 

[ColinR]

Stop talking, start laying some fibre, get something done. All talk and no work makes Jack a poor boy.

 

[XCentricdave]

From the clan McLeod?

Is this going to take forever?

There can be only one...

...so long as it is more than 50% South African owned.

 

[lordnokon]

Im just wondering how much of the 3.8Tbit will we see in SA

 

[kris860911]

I'm with FEO, Yawn

 

[GougedEye]

Is this going to take forever?

Nah, it'll be here immanently.

 

[ambo]

Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri told FMTech that she is hopeful that InfraCo and SEACOM will be incorporated into the new Nepad cable project.

So by inference...
She is no longer blocking SEACOM???

 

[geoffr]

I doubt the 2009 bit

Realisticly, it is unlikely that any cable system that is started now will be commissioned before 2012, or with a superhuman effort 2011. Even the Infraco cable that is being talked about by the SA government is unlikely to be commissioned before 2011, or more likely 2012.

 

[lenosb]

planning which should go live in 2009 backed by 12 African governments
having discussions Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri

The above extracts from the article should be enough to tell anyone that the article is not worth it's weight in toilet paper......