Brymedia West Africa, one of the firms bidding to take-over Nigeria’s NITEL and MTel is planning to build an overland fiber cable (OFC) from the Nigerian state of Katsina through to Tunisia.
The source said the overland fiber cable would pass through two countries instead of 13 countries. This will be achieved with the aid of tails to be laid into land-locked countries, such as Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali.
Sources close to the project said that Telecom Italia, one of the biggest operators in Europe, has already indicated interest to land the overland fiber cable into mainland Europe.
The sources further disclosed that the proposed cable would outperform existing cables, like the SAT-3, and the upcoming Glo-1. The overland fiber cable is estimated to be half as expensive as SAT-3 or Glo-1, allowing savings to be passed on to customers via lower tariffs. Read the rest of this entry »
Globacom announced last weekend that its long-delayed Glo-1 cable has landed in Lagos, Nigeria. Globacom’s Group Executive Director, Paddy Adenuga, said in a statement to mark the landing of the cable that Glo-1 “will stimulate a new era of prosperity in the continent by offering cheap, fast, and reliable international calls, unprecedented fast access to the internet and revolutionary data transfer”.
