Preliminary deal signed for African cable system

Just someone pick 1 damn cable already, and lay it!

All we hear are plans for other "new and exciting" cables. Rather finish one bloody cable and then move on and worry about the next.
 
The cable will provide landing points to every coastal and island country in Africa, including those countries that are currently not serviced by other cable networks.
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OK, I'm buying an island. Then I will get my own cable :p
 
A cable leading to an island? When do we leave?

I think Madagascar has better bandwidth than South Africa lol.

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Ohhhhh, another cable, I wonder how they'll stop this one....:rolleyes:

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a strategy Nepad says will make it easy to control the pricing of the bandwidth.
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Wonderfull.:rolleyes:
 
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And till then we have to suffer stil - and theres no Guarantee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Don't worry everyone, I've just signed a MoU with a colleague about my 100PetaByte undersea, overland, in the sky cable. It will connect everyone to everything. It will lead to African world economic power and all sorts of other political favourites, in fact it will also solve global warming.

We are planning an initial proof of concept early in 2008 and plan to have the system operational by 2010.:cool:

We are confident on our ability to deliver all our press releases on time.
 
This sounds very much like the Africa-1 cable project that failed to get funded a few years ago.

While the aim of landing in every country and island is very laudable, the economics don't support this type of business model. Any additional landing will add around $20m (perhaps more) to the capital cost of a submarine cable project. It will also increase the annual operations and maintenance costs of the system by perhaps $0.3m-$0.4m per year.

If the additional country or island cannot generate the traffic, or more importantly, revenue to sustain those costs then the financial burden of the additional landing will be carried by the other users of the system. This runs counter to the objective, which everyone supports, of lower bandwidth costs.

While I wish 5-P and their partners every success, I would have been more convinced if they had announced they were doing a proper feasibility study as well as signing MOUs. I suspect that if this project does go ahead they will need to reduce the number of landings to make the business case add up.

Dave
 
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