{"id":1349,"date":"2007-09-18T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-18T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T05:32:00","slug":"seacom-concerns-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/1349-seacom-concerns-unfounded.html","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM concerns unfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neotel.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Neotel<\/a> &ndash; which has already signed an agreement to land the SEACOM cable in South Africa &ndash; says that there is no truth in the rumor that SEACOM has pulled out due to the Department of Communication&rsquo;s new requirement that only cables where locals have a majority share in the project will be able to land in the country. Neotel said that further announcements regarding the progress of SEACOM can be expected in the following weeks.<\/p>\n<p>ITWeb also reported previously that SEACOM denies pulling out. &quot;We are in constant and close dialogue with all African governments with a stake in SEACOM&rsquo;s cable, including particularly the South African government. We are, unfortunately, unable to comment on these discussions at this stage,&quot; a SEACOM spokesman told ITWeb.<\/p>\n<p>SEACOM is majority owned by African interests while the South African shareholding totals 25%.<\/p>\n<p>EASSy also recently confirmed that it is progressing well with the project and that it is confident that a suitable solution can be found to the South African landing rights conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>EASSy is 90% owned by African companies, with South Africa being the largest shareholder with 27%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=87840\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns arising from recent media reports regarding SEACOM pulling out of South Africa cable are unfounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}