Main One Cable
Also, there will be three other landing station points in Africa with landing station partners to be announced in 2010.
In early September, Globacom announced that the much-delayed Glo-1 cable had landed in Lagos.
The telecommunications industry in Nigeria has practically given up on Glo-1, given that the cable is not yet able to provide access to its potential customers.
Meanwhile Main One seems to be making steady progress in becoming the second competitive cable in West Africa by June 2010.
According to Main One’s Commercial Director Bernard Logan, it is “80% through production” of the fibre, has “started its first lay in Ghana” and is building three landing stations in Ghana, Nigeria, and Portugal. Read the rest of this entry »
Two years after committing to the SEACOM project, Gateway Communications is live on the submarine fibre optic cable connecting Africa to Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world. Gateway Communications was the first company to invest in SEACOM, which is bringing 1.28 Tbit/s of capacity to the continent.
The capacity made available to Africa by the implementation of SEACOM seems to be gaining momentum.
Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) says it is now hooked up to the SEACOM international submarine fibre-optic cable system and able to provide its customers with some of the fastest communication services in the country.
Pressure to reduce the price of communication intensified on Tuesday after national data solutions provider, Kenya Data Networks (KDN), lowered its connectivity rates by 90%. However, consumers are not yet experiencing cheaper retail rates.
KenCall, a Kenyan call center company, is planning an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) or the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in 2011 to expand its operations in Africa.
“We want to become the pre-dominant player in sub-Saharan Africa and then go global,” Nicholas Nesbitt said. The company aims to generate sales of $10 million this year, Nesbitt said. 
