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[kilo39]

Some things going on in the real world:

Competition is the main catalyst for international submarine cable construction. Incumbents around the world that are members of consortium submarine cables are trying to slow the growth of alternative carriers by denying them access to their cables or charging them high fees. This situation has led many new communications companies, including mobile phone operators, to build their own submarine cables, which is a completely new trend.

New mobile companies are building international submarine cables, Krebs says, because international traffic, roaming, and Internet are among their most lucrative services. Among the recent new mobile operators to build submarine cables are Reliance in India, Vodafone in Malta, Globacom in Nigeria, and Orascom in Algeria and Pakistan.
Global submarine cable market accelerates on road to recovery

Other things going on in the world.

 

[Alchemist]

South Africa seriously needs to catch on to this trend. However, I have my doubt that ICASA will actually allow this to happen

 

[Oupoot]

I think the time has come for someone to simply go ahead and do it. I mean, by the time ICASA wakes up it will be too late. Besides, whats a bit of white collar crime when we have such high rate of murders, robberies, assault, rape, ..... It will simply add to the list.

 

[kilo39]

Almost gave it the title "Our telkom backwater." Can't believe the cable projects going on in the world:

Alcatel-Lucent to Deploy WDM Network in Nigeria
Posted on 02.08.07
As part of a $600 M wide-ranging telecom equipment contract signed by Alcatel-Lucent and Nigerian carrier Globacom, Alcatel-Lucent will "deploy a new dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transport network that will increase the capacity and extend the reach of Globacom’s existing infrastructure, broadening its service offering to new areas. Crossing more than 40 cities in Nigeria, the new network will be the African continent’s largest DWDM backbone."


Asia Netcom to Upgrade Pacific Cable
Posted on 01.16.07
Asia Netcom has announced plans to add a new trans-Pacific portion to its regional submarine cable system, EAC. The 23,500 km infrastructure–EAC Pacific– will extend the existing infrastructure with a new trans-Pacific ring. The project, expected to be completed by July 2008, consists of a northern route connecting Japan to the US, and a southern route linking the Philippines to the US via Guam and Hawaii. The new EAC Pacific system will feature 4 fiber pairs, each capable of supporting a minimum design capacity of 2.56 Tbps (Terabits per second) using 64-wavelength DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) technology capable of transporting 10 Gbps per wavelength.


Sea-Me-We 4 Submarine Network Put Into Service
Posted on 01.02.06
The Sea-Me-We 4 submarine cable network has been put into service at intial capacity of 160 Gbps. Completed in 18 months, the Sea-Me-We 4 submarine cable network nearly spans 20,000 km - approximately half of the circumference of the globe - linking 14 countries from Singapore to France and relying on 16 landing points. This system is designed to last 25 years with full reliability, and with 32 times the initial capacity of the previous Sea-Me-We 3 system, which was installed in 1998


All off http://www.wdmblog.com/

Interesting maps! (alcatel)

 

[Napalm]

ICASA seems to be "slowing" everyone down..

I'm thinking ICASA and Telscum are working together.

So ye... Just bend over and say ahhhhh

 

[mcleodd]

Some things going on in the real world:

Competition is the main catalyst for international submarine cable construction. Incumbents around the world that are members of consortium submarine cables are trying to slow the growth of alternative carriers by denying them access to their cables or charging them high fees. This situation has led many new communications companies, including mobile phone operators, to build their own submarine cables, which is a completely new trend.

New mobile companies are building international submarine cables, Krebs says, because international traffic, roaming, and Internet are among their most lucrative services. Among the recent new mobile operators to build submarine cables are Reliance in India, Vodafone in Malta, Globacom in Nigeria, and Orascom in Algeria and Pakistan.
Global submarine cable market accelerates on road to recovery

Other things going on in the world.

And our socialist-leaning government wants to build a taxpayer-funded system and then provide access to it at wholesale prices, thereby undermining private-sector investment in new cable projects for years to come and setting us even further behind the rest of the world. I can only hope that our next president, whoever he or she happens to be, has the foresight to jettison these idiotic socialist schemes and embrace private enterprise.
Duncan

 

[Syndyre]

And our socialist-leaning government wants to build a taxpayer-funded system and then provide access to it at wholesale prices, thereby undermining private-sector investment in new cable projects for years to come and setting us even further behind the rest of the world. I can only hope that our next president, whoever he or she happens to be, has the foresight to jettison these idiotic socialist schemes and embrace private enterprise.
Duncan

Even if we do get a more market-oriented president it'll almost be too late by then. The government seems to want to own everything for "strategic" reasons, although this almost invariably means incompetent management and subsequent taxpayer bailouts after the companies have been run into the ground, just look at Eskom, Transnet, SAA etc.