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Undersea cable comes ashore
Tuesday February 16th 2010. Posted: 15:22
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BT has invested in the undersea cable which has finally come ashore in South Africa
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An undersea cable system that aims to revolutionise East Africa’s connectivity to the global telecoms network has finally landed.
After delays caused by bad weather, the 10,000km East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) - in which BT has a $7m (£4.4m) investment - came ashore at Mtunzini in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. “The EASSy cable system will introduce high-speed telecom services to the East and Central Africa countries as well as providing access into other submarine cable systems in the area,” said Dec Wallace, senior project manager of the BT Innovate & Design subsea centre of excellence (CoE). “Further onward connectivity to the rest of the world will enhance economic growth in East Africa whilst providing BT with resilience in the region.” EASSy links As the cable owner’s representative, Richard Hill of the subsea CoE was on board the cable ship Ile de Batz which landed the high-bandwidth fibre optic link. Once completed, EASSy will link Sudan to South Africa via Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros, Madagascar and Mozambique. Other countries that will benefit from the project include Botswana, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It will mean countries in the region will no longer have to rely on expensive satellite systems to carry voice and data services.
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