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Botswana: BTC Inaugurates Connection To WACS Cable Landing In Namibia
Filed under: Capacity, Fibre Long Haul Tags: Botswana, Namibia
Morocco: Maroc Telecom Expands Fibre Backbone To 26,480-Km, Increases International Bandwidth To 110 Gbps
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Mali: Sotelma Completes Fibre Link To Border With Mauritania, Increases Fibre Backbone By 788-Km During 2011
Filed under: Capacity, Fibre Long Haul Tags: Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania
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Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Plans 1,114-Km National Fibre Backbone
Filed under: Fibre Long Haul Tags: Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Sierra Leone
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Malawi: Malawi Seeks Partners For International Fibre Link Between Lilongwe And Tanzania
Filed under: Capacity, Fibre Long Haul Tags: Malawi, Tanzania
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Zambia: ZESCO Expects To Complete Fibre Link To Chipata On Malawian Border In September 2012
Show on map On 19 June 2012, ZESCO (Zambia Electricity Corporation) issued a statement saying that it expects the second phase of its aerial fibre backbone to be completed by the end of September 2012, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. The completion of this phase will notably include a fibre route from Serenje to Chipata on the border with Malawi. Meanwhile, at the start of June, ZESCO said that the deployment of fibre optic network on its powerlines in the Muchinga province had been completed, and that the fibre optic network would be connected to Tanzania through the border at Nakonde (see Zambia: ZESCO Completes Fibre Route To Tanzanian Border At Nakonde). ZTE has been deploying phase 2 of ZESCO’s national fibre backbone along power lines (see Zambia: ZESCO Plans To Complete 3,000-km Phase 2 Of Fibre Backbone By End 2011). “The second phase is expected to be completed in September 2012,” said ZESCO (source: Daily Mail). “The network will cover 2,600 kilometres of fibre... Read More →
Seychelles: SEAS Submarine Cable Lands In Seychelles
Filed under: Capacity, Submarine Cable Tags: Seychelles, Tanzania
Show on map On 27 May 2012, the 1,930-km Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) submarine cable landed at Beau Vallon, on the island of Mahé in the Seychelles. The cable was deployed by Alcatel-Lucent’s Ile de Sein ship, which departed from Msasani Beach in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) on 8 May 2012. The SEAS cable is initially equipped at 20 Gbps with an ultimate design capacity of 320 Gbps. SEAS is the first fibre optic submarine cable to land in the Seychelles. In November 2010, the Seychelles Cable Systems ltd (SCS) awarded a contract valued at over US$30 million to Alcatel Lucent for the construction of the SEAS cable (see also Seychelles: Seychelles Cable System (SCS) Awards Contract For SEAS Submarine Cable To Alcatel Lucent). In Tanzania, Zantel is the landing party for SEAS in Dar es Salaam. SCS is also a shareholder in WIOCC (Western Indian Ocean Cable Company), the largest shareholder in the EASSy submarine cable which also lands in Dar es Salaam. The Seychelles Cable Systems Ltd... Read More →
Zambia: ZESCO Completes Fibre Route To Tanzanian Border At Nakonde
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Algeria: Algerian Ministry Plans To Issue Tender For 4,500-km Terrestrial Fibre Link To Nigeria
Filed under: Fibre Long Haul Tags: Algeria, Niger, Nigeria
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Morocco: Morocco’s International Bandwidth Increases 66% To Reach 124.4 Gbps, December 2011
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Benin: Benin Telecom Increases International Bandwidth To 1 Gbps, December 2011
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Somalia: Somcable Plans Completion Of 1,200-km Terrestrial Fibre Network In Somaliland By End 2012
Filed under: Fibre Long Haul, Fibre Metro Tags: Djibouti, Somalia
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Uganda: Altech Confirms KDN’s Completion Of Kampala – Kigali Fibre Link
Filed under: Capacity, Fibre Long Haul Tags: Rwanda, Uganda
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Mauritius: Mauritius Telecom Increases International Bandwidth To 10 Gbps, December 2011
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Sudan: Sudatel Launches SAS-2 Submarine Cable Connecting Port Sudan To Jeddah
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