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East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable
Abel Mebratu writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "The first undersea cable to bring high-speed internet access to East Africa has gone live. The fiber-optic cable, operated by African-owned firm Seacom, connects South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and Asia. The firm says the cable will help to boost the prospects of the region's industry and commerce. The cable — which is 17,000km long — took two years to lay and cost more than $650m."
If it's coiled the right way, I'm sure it will be.
Undersea pirates?
Are you telling me they have developed gills now?
It cost $11.65/foot - probably a Monster Cable.
A less cynical person
There's no such thing as "less cynical" on slashdot. There's only "over-cynical", "super-cynical", and "Anonymous Coward".
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
They mean that bit torrent users in Somalia were using up so much bandwidth that the cable couldn't be used
That's Anonymous Cowardon to you, MISTER!
Obviously not, I'm posting this from South Africa - Would've posted sooner but my lion got stuck behind a giraffe-pileup on the freeway.
I live in San Jose, California. I can see Google, and other campuses from my house. I can not get High speed internet. I use a dial-up line. I am just a little bit up the hill, and the new development less than 200m down the hill all have high speed DSL, they also have comcast cable. All that does me little good, as nobody will connect me.
Maybe the telecom companies will have extra resources to connect me, now that they are finished with Africa.
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org