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New undersea cable lands in South Africa - internet costs to fall
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 02 - 2010


Another undersea fibre-optic cable running
along the coast of east Africa was expected to reach South Africa
over the weekend, in a development expected to hike internet speeds
and sink costs in Africa's biggest economy, dpa reported.
Telecommunications provider Telkom, the landing partner for
the cable in South Africa, said in a statement that the East African
Submarine Cable System (EASSy) would land in northern KwaZulu-Natal
province, on the south-east tip of the continent.
The 10,000-kilometre cable has already come ashore in Sudan at its
northern tip, and Mozambique.
Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros and Madagascar are
also lined up to receive the cable, while will also service
landlocked countries through hook-ups.
EASSy has a capacity of 1.4 terabits per second, higher than any
other undersea cable system servicing East Africa, Telkom said.
Undersea cables have been welcomed as a cheaper in the area of
broadband internet to satellite technology.
In July last year, Seacom, a majority African-owned company, went
live with the first such East Africa cable, linking southern, east
and north Africa to India and Europe along a 17,000-kilometre route.
Internet costs are expected to fall and connection speeds to
improve as internet providers hitch up to the new cables.
Last year, Telkom suffered the embarrassment of seeing its
"high-speed" ADSL line beaten by an 11-month-old homing pigeon on the
delivery of four gigabytes of data over 85 kilometres.
"Ultimately, we believe that EASSy will also go a long way towards
increasing Africa's bandwidth capacity, affordability and create
increased diversity and fibre redundancy between SA and Europe as
well as within East Africa," Alphonzo Samuels, Telkom's Wholesale
Services manager said.
Telkom says it also had stakes in a number of undersea cables,
excluding Seacom.
EASSy is not actually expected to go live in South Africa until
August - after the football World Cup.
According to the Internet World Stats website, internet
penetration is only 5.6 per cent in Africa, compared to 26.6 per cent
in the rest of the world.


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