2010 sub cable gets the green light

“It’s all systems go for the R4.3bn submarine telecommunications cable which will link southern and east Africa with India and Europe ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup.” News24

Work on this 15000km optic fibre sub sea cable is said to begin this week, and will be completed and fully operational by June 2009.

The cable with a capacity of 1.28 terrabytes per second will bring much needed bandwidth relief to the African continent.
It is hoped that this cable will give the 2010 soccer hosts the international bandwidth to successfully broadcast the world cup.

With more and more bandwidth coming to our continent over the next few years wireless broadband is bound to get cheaper and cheaper and this will lead to many new folks joining the internet revolution, which will also mean that many new people will be able to benefit from frings free calls via mobile.

This can only be good news for fringsters in Africa and we at fring wish the contractors of this new cable the best for the hard few years of construction that lie ahead.