{"id":547747,"date":"2006-01-17T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T12:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547747-sentech-to-host-eassy-cable-meeting.html"},"modified":"2006-01-17T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T12:34:53","slug":"sentech-to-host-eassy-cable-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547747-sentech-to-host-eassy-cable-meeting.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentech to host EASSy Cable meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Delegates from more than 20 international telco operators are expected to attend.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Amongst them will be representatives from the companies involved in the project namely World Bank IFC Group, Development Funding Agencies, The African Development Bank, Development Bank of South Africa and the EU.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">These institutions have confirmed their readiness to provide funding for the EASSy Project should it be required.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) Project has been established to develop and implement a submarine cable system to provide fibre optic telecommunications facilities to the Eastern coast of Africa.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This cable will also link Northern and Southern African international gateways to the system. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">On the South African front delegates from ICASA, the Department of Communications, the Department of Business Enterprise and the Department of the National Treasury are expected to attend.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The conference will start on the 23rd of January at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg and will run until the 31st of January.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=35694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech will be hosting a conference in Johannesburg which will focus on The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547747"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}