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2011 Africa Telecom Transmission Map Published Africa’s total inventory of terrestrial transmission networks increased by 15% over the last year to reach 676,739 route-kms by the end of September 2011, according to the third edition of the Africa Telecom Transmission Map. Laid end-to-end, that is enough network infrastructure to wrap around the earth almost 17 times. This compares to 660,230-kms in June 2011, 585,468-kms in June 2010 and 465,659-kms in June 2009. In the last twelve months, on average 138 route-kms of new fibre network entered service per day. (Route-kms of transmission network infrastructure are counted as the number of kilometers of cable or microwave network, irrespective of the number of optical fibres contained within each cable). By the end of the year, there will be continuous interconnected terrestrial fibre networks running from Cape Town to Cairo. The total length of operational fibre and microwave network increased by 14.5% in the last year, with... Read More →