What it takes to build a subsea cable
The West African Cable System (Wacs), the highest-capacity undersea telecommunications cable to land in SA to date, will eventually offer countries along its route, including SA, up to 5,1Tbit/s of capacity into Europe. With 14 entities involved in
$650m Wacs lights up Africa’s west coast
The West African Cable System (Wacs), the latest submarine cable to land on African shores, has arrived, offering SA operators 500Gbit/s of capacity at launch. The system, which has a design capacity of 5,1Tbit/s, makes use of both 10Gbit/s and 40Gbit/s technology on different segments and will
SA’s giant new sub-sea cable is here
The 14 000km West African Cable System (Wacs), the first new sub-sea telecommunications cable along Africa’s west coast since Sat-3 was launched 11 years ago, will be launched officially in about a month’s time. Angus Hay, co-chair of the Wacs management committee and chief technology officer at Neotel, says
Fibre to the home ‘inevitable’ – Neotel
Though no serious investments have taken place yet to bring high-capacity fibre infrastructure into South Africans’ homes, Neotel chief technology officer Angus Hay says it will happen. Hay, speaking at a fibre telecommunications conference
Unbundling: SA must learn and adapt, says Neotel
Neotel believes there is “plenty of knowledge” about local-loop unbundling available and SA ought to learn from it and adapt it to the country’s context. The company’s chief technology officer, Angus Hay, was speaking on Thursday
Wacsing the competition
The arrival of the Western African Cable System (Wacs), which landed in the west coast town of Yzerfontein on Tuesday will accelerate competition in the local market. But, according to experts, the impact on broadband prices may not
Neotel fears interference
Telecommunications operator Neotel is worried about radio frequency spectrum interference from television broadcasters during the switchover period from analogue to digital terrestrial television. Neotel is
Wacs cable lands in SA next month
The West African Cable System (Wacs) will land on SA shores early in April, bringing the construction phase of the project to an end. However, its commercial launch has been pushed back by a few
Neotel cuts call prices
Neotel is taking advantage of the 1 March cut in mobile termination rates to cut the cost of calls to mobile phones. It’s the first operator to announce cuts on the back of the lowering of the rates
How Neotel could play spectrum in its favour
Neotel’s access to prime spectrum in the radio frequency band used for analogue terrestrial television broadcasts could give it a strategic advantage over its rivals. This is as the world begins moving to the next generation
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