Main One's plans for Southern Africa

Wonderful. Especially for the big redundancy matter. Now all will adopt alternatives, the alternatives will get stronger and lower prices, the lower the prices the more society will be interested, and so on. meaning Africa will finally become part of the web. Now all we've got to do is get the dominoes to flick the light bulb so that the dark continent could finally show it's spark.
 
Bernard Logan, Business Development Executive of the Main One Cable Company, said that they are in advanced discussions with SEACOM and other companies to extend the cable to SA.
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That doesn't bode well :D
 
Don't fool yourself. Looking at the alternatives . . . SEACOM is the best partner.
 
We need alternatives and we need a healthy price war :D
 
Sorry but can someone please so a summarization of all the cables going live and what we have already ? EG , Seacom , Sat3 , we know Eassy goes live today and there is WACS and now we hear main one will be extended into SA. IS that it ? It would be great to have a comparison table re what there is live , their max capacity and what they are on now , for example Seacom only lit something like 90Gb (not 100% sure so dont shoot me down).
 
sparticus said:
Sorry but can someone please so a summarization of all the cables going live and what we have already ? EG , Seacom , Sat3 , we know Eassy goes live today and there is WACS and now we hear main one will be extended into SA. IS that it ? It would be great to have a comparison table re what there is live , their max capacity and what they are on now , for example Seacom only lit something like 90Gb (not 100% sure so dont shoot me down).
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30

EDIT: Oh, that was at launch. It's 100 now, and EASSY will start with 30 Gbps today.
 
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Let's hope that Telkom refuse to allow them to land at Melkbosstrand and that they terminate in Mtinzini! Will be better for absolute full redundancy similar to SAT-3/SAFE.
 
sparticus said:
Sorry but can someone please so a summarization of all the cables going live and what we have already ? EG , Seacom , Sat3 , we know Eassy goes live today and there is WACS and now we hear main one will be extended into SA. IS that it ? It would be great to have a comparison table re what there is live , their max capacity and what they are on now , for example Seacom only lit something like 90Gb (not 100% sure so dont shoot me down).
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I thought everyone knew about this website by now... http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

It's been posted hundreds of times on this board! But yeah... there's all the cables! Doesn't tell you how much they are currently utilising though.
 
Yep, bring on more cables. Funny, just saw the Ad on CNN branded as glo 1 in Nigeria & Ghana. Impressive stuff!
 
data must be an awesome, highly profitable business. Why ese would every one be wanting to lay a cable?
now if we can get the last mile sorted - for residential customers and not just corporate and gated communities - then we can all benefit, and the cable owners can make more money
 
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