{"id":548082,"date":"2006-02-23T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548082-africa-s-bandwidth-cable.html"},"modified":"2006-02-23T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T11:38:00","slug":"africa-s-bandwidth-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548082-africa-s-bandwidth-cable.html","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s bandwidth cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The three foreign operators have joined a consortium of mainly African operators constructing the cable to bring much needed high-speed bandwidth to the continent. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">China Telecom and Malaysia Telecom have also shown interest in supporting the mammoth construction project. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Members of the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System met in Johannesburg last month to thrash out the finer details of the task. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A procurement working group will meet this month to assess the tenders submitted by construction companies. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Financial agreements should be signed off in June so construction can begin in July or August, with a completion date in the fourth quarter of 2007. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The cable is expected to cost $200m, and will run from Mtunzini in SA to Port Sudan, with landing points in six countries. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=38221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN UNDERSEA 9900km cable linking Africa to international telecommunications networks has won valuable support from British Telecom, Saudi Telecom and Teleglobe of Canada.<\/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-548082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548082"}],"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=548082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}