EASSy Cable Open For Business - Good for Somaliland

[Jacaylbaro]

The days of limited and expensive international bandwidth in South Africa are over as the EASSy cable became the second submarine cable to launch on the East coast of Africa.

 

MTN's Trevor Martin's, who also serves as the EASSy consortium's chairperson, announced in Sandton this week that the cable had come in ahead of schedule and almost 10% under its $300-million budget.

 

The 10 000km cable lands in South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, the Comores, Tanzania, Kenya, Somaliland, Djibouti and Sudan.

 

It connects with multiple Asian and European cables in Djibouti and Sudan.

 

The commercial launch of the EASSy cable follows the launch of the Seacom cable in July 2009 and Telkom's SAT-3 cable.

 

The Seacom cable was privately funded, while EASSy has seen significant investment from governments and major operators along the East Coast of Africa.

 

Investors include MTN, Neotel, Telkom, Vodacom, British Telecom, Botswana Telecoms, B***** Airtel, Dalkom Somalia, Comoros Telecom, Mauritius Telecom and France Telecom, among others.

 

Unlike South Africa, for many African countries the EASSy cable represents their second undersea cable, which is vitally important in stimulating competition, but also in creating backup capacity in case one of the cables has a fault or is damaged on the sea bed.

 

"We are confident that this is the most reliable system serving the African continent," said Jacques van der Walt, the chairperson of the EASSy consortium's procurement committee.

 

 

One small hiccup was that the cable does not land in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to the threat of piracy.

 

Chris Wood, the CEO of WIOCC -- an investor in the EASSy cable -- said the cable would land in the north of Somaliland and service Somalia through this landing station.

 

Wood said that the consortium still planned to land in Mogadishu once the threats of piracy had been minimised. He said, however, that this was probably a year or two away.

[Jacaylbaro]

One small hiccup was that the cable does not land in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to the threat of piracy.

 

Chris Wood, the CEO of WIOCC -- an investor in the EASSy cable -- said the cable would land in the north of Somaliland and service Somalia through this landing station.

[The Zack]

^Waa ku raaxeysaneysaa the parts you quoted miyaa? LOL

 

 

On a serious note, cable TV will bring fusuq and jaqajaaan anyways.

[Jacaylbaro]

We not talking about TV here ,,,,,

[The Zack]

maybe i should've read the whole thing, anyways why did u quote the parts you quoted? It looks like u r saying "hey look, they didn't get it, we got it"

 

Anyways, a lot of things would've been diff should Africa gets the very high speed internet service. I think they are fine voice wise.

[nuune]

^^ lol ZACK, iska daa odeyga JB, saad moodey hadalka uma wadee, he justhad BIG share in one local company that invested some millions in that CABLE link.

 

 

but honestly, who needs high speed internet in Somalia, or voice, it is already there, maybe they want to import this cable to Ethiopia via Berbera, ethiopia sucks completely in communication, specially internet wise, one time I had to go to the Somali border to get high speed internet.

[Jacaylbaro]

With the cable coming to Berbera ,,, it means business when we sell it to Somalia & Ethiopia.

[The Zack]

Nuune, Ethiopia is causing its own communication problems. Monopoly is killing them. The only communication company in Ethiopia is a company that's owned by the government. Private companies are not allowed and that is where their backwardness comes from.

[Jacaylbaro]

We will teach them how to do it ,,,, soon

[The Zack]

^They know how to do it, trust me. It is will VS skill.