WACS cable lands in South Africa

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WACS lands in South Africa

The 5.12Tbps West Africa Cable System (WACS) landed in Yzerfontein on the West Coast

 

[Grubscrew]

Yeah baby R2/gb here we come

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

This is so WAC!

 

[mRsKu11]

Yeah baby R2/gb here we come

Never :S

 

[Kloon]

Lets hope Telkom does not stuff this one up seeing as they are the landing partner in South Africa.

 

[rph72]

This is good news. Now those prices must fall!!

 

[Shake&Bake]

Pity I'm seeing Telkom's name so much in that article.
Don't trust them at all.
Having them in charge of the backhaul supply, is worrying.

Come on DFA!
Rip up the road all the way to my place!

 

[foX2delta]

they all said nothing will happen till wacs lands (said it when seacom came), so lets hope a lot will happen now... But look at the other cable that landed the other day, nothing has happened with that, greed will be this and that cables downfall.

 

[CrazYmonkeY159]

I will only rejoice if/when MTN revises thier Dataplan prices

 

[simbao53]

Furthermore Telkom’s submarine cable portfolio will now comprise of a complete ring around Africa enabling Telkom the ability to offer redundant and restorable international bandwidth services.

I wish it could also be competitive and reasonably priced services!

 

[devilfp]

NO hope here, its Seacom & Telkom, to really bad combinations!

 

[Randux]

Expect 0% price cuts from the network operaters

 

[kissingmybbgoodbye]

Pull the cable a few 100 kms north east and I make my house available for the landing station

 

[Wag]

Pity I'm seeing Telkom's name so much in that article.
Don't trust them at all.
Having them in charge of the backhaul supply, is worrying.

Come on DFA!
Rip up the road all the way to my place!

Yip, I agree, if the monkeys at telkom are involved we will keep on buying vaseline.

 

[Darthloop]

Expect 0% price cuts from the network operators

Probably give us some lame excuse like "due to increasing costs of energy..."

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Yeah baby R2/gb here we come

Probably not going to happen. International is no longer the problem, our local network is.

 

[SlyFly]

Telkom will just increase their profit % and we will still pay the same amount...

 

[mcryan]

Good news, looking forward to things being shaken up even more.

 

[dabbler]

14,000 km of cable... that must have taken some effort to pull ashore

 

[RichardG]

I doubt the prices will come down for bandwidth until 2012/3 check http://www.cablemap.info/