Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Bandwidth at ‘fraction of today’s cost’

THE price of international bandwidth will plummet 80% when the Seacom undersea cable goes live on June 17 next year.

Seacom will be the first of several proposed cables to finally reach African shores and local universities have already been promised international bandwidth for just 2,5% of the fee they currently pay.

Seacom president Brian Herlihy said the $600m, 17000km cable running up Africa’s east coast, then on to India and France, was on track for a “dead-certain delivery date”.
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NVDL: Don't 'Go Broadband' just yet. Leave off on iBurst too. High speed is headed our way, and cheap, from unda da sea... 'Bout time too.

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