The cables has landed

For our Internet, not much.

For our economy, huge repercussions because East Africa now has a change to overtake us in terms of telecommunications infrastructure. It appears that Telkom and the World Bank launched this project to compete with the Seacom cable. The Seacom cable has likewise not impacted our local Internet prices much because our problem is not international access but local infrastructure that Telkom isn't willing to provide due to lack of competition and nobody is willing to compete with Telkom due to our government regulation of the telecommunications industries. Same reason why we don't have competition for Eskom and won't get any soon.

SEACOM already allows East Africa to be tapped in terms of offshore outsourcing so the potential impact on our economy is huge. But I don't think it will impact our Internet prices or quality soon.
 
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