Ace cable makes progress
The US$700m Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) project to lay a high-capacity, 5,1Tbit/s submarine cable between France and SA is making good progress, with news late this week that the system has landed in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. The cable, which is co-owned by
Does Orange buying BCX compute?
French telecommunications giant Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, is in talks to buy SA IT service company Business Connexion (BCX), three separate industry sources have told TechCentral. Neither company is commenting, but it raises
Kenya gets second fibre-to-the-home player
Orange Kenya is set to become the second telecommunications operator in the East African nation to roll out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services. Its plans follow Wananchi Group’s FTTH project
Ace still coming, but Sentech is out of the picture
Baharicom has put a refuted speculation that the R5,4bn Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) cable is no longer coming to SA’s shores. The Ace investor says SA is still part of the project plan
SA may lose undersea cable
Doubts have been cast over whether France Telecom’s Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) undersea cable will make it as far south as SA. Latest talk is that the cable, which
France Telecom to build new Africa cable
Sub-Saharan Africa will soon be drowning in international bandwidth. France Telecom’s Orange has announced an extension to the Lower Indian Ocean Network (Lion) cable, adding yet more capacity to the east coast of Africa.
Mega submarine cable to rival Wacs
Yet another undersea cable system is coming to connect SA and other African countries to the global Internet, bringing the promise of an international bandwidth glut and lower broadband prices for consumers and businesses. France Telecom has announced the new project’s backers, mainly operators, have signed an agreement for the construction of the US$700m (R5,4bn), 5,1Tbit/s, 17 000km-long system known as the Africa Coast to Europe (
Eassy to come ashore this weekend
The second high-capacity fibre-optic submarine cable system along Africa’s east coast will be brought ashore at Mtunzini, north of Durban, this weekend. The East African Submarine System (Eassy) will join Seacom in providing connectivity to countries in East Africa when it goes live in July. Eassy, whose investors include MTN, Telkom and Vodacom, will provide [...]
Vodacom reneged on promises, says DRC partner
Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys last year offered to sell the cellular group’s 51% stake in its Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) subsidiary and disinvest from the troubled central African country. But Uys (pictured) changed his mind at the last moment. That’s one of several sensational claims made by Alieu Conteh, the head of Congolese Wireless [...]
Sentech to land new west coast submarine cable
State-owned Sentech will use its telecommunications licence to land a new, high-capacity international cable system in SA. A consortium comprising 25 investors, led by France Telecom/Orange, will pay for the construction of the 14 000km system, known as the Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) cable. The Ace system will have a design capacity of 1,9Tbit/s [...]
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