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Articles tagged with: Submarine
World Bank Approves Funding to Extend Affordable Communications Services
..e, social participation, and government efficiency. The recently launched submarine cable projects, together with such national backbone networks are already driving down substantially the costs of broadband connectivity in Africa," said Mohsen more
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Pirates Delay Submarine Telecoms Cable
The submarine telecoms cable being built around the Eastern coast of Africa is being delayed by increased pirate activity in the area over the past few months. SEACOM now says that its planned "ready for service" date has been pushed back to 23 July 2009. The planned route required the ship to transit an area of increased pirate activity where other ships had been attacked or seized. more
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Kenya Unlikely to Lower Airtime Taxes
..ect of lowering the tax, Kenyatta chose to dwell on the advantages that submarine fiber-optic cables will provide for the mobile phone services sector. "We expect arrival of the TEAMS, SEACOM and EASSY submarine cables to reduce cost of c more
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Alcatel-Lucent Q1 Losses Widen - Aims for Break Even by Year-End
..ise voice telephony, only partly offset by the growth in IP, W-CDMA and submarine optics. On the other hand, Applications software revenues grew at a mid-single digit rate at constant currency while Services revenues grew in the high teens. more
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Millicom Buys Out Shareholdings in Central America and Chad
..ral America with fiber optic rings for backhaul and to provide access to submarine cables and the internet "cloud". By taking full control of the Navega business, Millicom will be able to ensure the quality and the timely availability for bac more
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Favourable Market Conditions in East Africa to Drive Broadband Internet Growth
..ates this to reach close to $788 million in 2014. East Africa has missed out on submarine cables as there has been no landing point for them. As a result, Internet services have been prohibitively expensive since countries have had to rely on more
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Rwandan senate approves $60 million communication project
..nment totaling $36 million. The project involves the extension of the broadband submarine cable from Mombasa, Kenya, to all districts in Rwanda. Energy Minister Albert Butare told the senate that the government had earmarked the money to have more
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ITU advocates infrastructure sharing to counter investment drought
..rk support infrastructure (poles, ducts, conduits), essential facilities (submarine cable landing stations and international gateways) as well as access to radio-frequency spectrum and end-user devices. Sharing infrastructure could counter imp more
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Alcatel-Lucent Loss Shrinks on Lower Revenues
..rong performance of certain carrier activities, including W-CDMA, NGN and submarine networks. In addition, we continued to grow our Enterprise business at a healthy rate and saw accelerated growth in Services." He warned though that the c more
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African Broadband Market to Quadruple by 2012
..earch argues that this is all about to change. "From the deployment of new submarine cables to improvements in radio spectral efficiency, there is a confluence of catalysts that suggest that African broadband growth is on the verge of tru more
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