Contents

• Exploded view for clearest mapping
• Main map scale of 1:10,500,000
• Inset map of West Africa scale of 1: 4,000,000
• Inset map of South Africa scale of 1: 2,000,000
• Table showing deployment of terrestrial fibre and microwave network in route-kms by country and status (operational, under construction, planned and proposed). (2012)
• Chart: International Internet Bandwidth (Gbps), Africa 2006 - 2011
• Chart: Route-kms Terrestrial Transmission Netwok, Africa 2009 - 2012

The map contains the following data for 135 network operators in 55 African countries, and 43 submarine cable systems:

• Operational fibre optic networks
• Fibre optic networks under construction
• Fibre optic networks planned
• Fibre optic networks proposed
• Microwave networks operational
• Microwave networks planned
• Operational submarine cables
• Submarine cables under construction
• Submarine cables planned or proposed
• International satellite earth stations
• National DOMSAT satellite sites

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The 2012 Africa Telecom Transmission Map is sponsored by Gateway Communications.

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the dozens of network operators for providing information, and the following organisations for their input and advice into the research and production of this map: Africa Analysis, Balancing Act, CIESIN, ECCAS, ECOWAS, Europa Technologies, WIOCC, and the World Bank.

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo, Rep
• Congo, DRC
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Reunion
• Rwanda
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

• ACE (Africa Coast to Europe)
• ACSea - AFR
• Aden - Djibouti
• ADONES
• ALPAL-2
• Atlantis-2
• Atlas Offshore
• BRICS Cable
• Cable sous marin l'Afrique Centrale (CSM-AC)
• Cape Verde Inter-island Submarine Cable
• EASSy (East African Submarine Cable System)
• EIG (Europe India Gateway)
• EUAfrica
• FALCON
• FLAG EA (Europe - Asia)
• FLAG NGN System -2
• GBI (Gulf Bridge International)
• GETESA Cable
• GLO-1
• Hannibal
• IMEWE (India - Middle East - Western Europe)
• Keltra
• LFON (Libya FIbre Optic Network)
• Libya - Italy
• LION-1 (Lower Indian Ocean Network 1)
• LION-2 (Lower Indian Ocean Network 2)
• LOUKKOS
• MAIN One
• SAS-1 (Sudan - Saudi Arabia)
• SAS-2 (Sudan - Saudi Arabia)
• SAT-2
• SAT-3/WASC (West Africa Submarine Cable)
• SAFE (South Africa - Far East)
• SEACOM
• SEAMEWE-3 (South East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe - 3)
• SEAMEWE-4
• Silphium
• SAEx (South Atlantic Express)
• SEAS (Seychelles East Africa System)
• TEAMS (The East African Marine System)
• TE North (Telecom Egypt North)
• WACS (West Africa Cable System)
• WASACE