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”.
Paddy Adenuga said the cumulative effect of the huge bandwidth and cheaper rates Glo-1 would bring to the continent “will empower Africans in the field of communications, education, agriculture, banking, and health”. The Glo-1 cable will have a capacity of 640 gigabits per second and an ultimate capacity of 2.5 terabits per second. Read the rest of this entry »
