[kictanet] [Fwd: [Fibre-for-africa] Keeping it all straight]

[alice]

Dear all

FYI

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Subject: 	[Fibre-for-africa] Keeping it all straight
Date: 	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:40:25 +0200
From: 	Steve Song <ssong.lists at gmail.com>
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Greetings,

In the wake of the cable cuts, few would argue that there are too many 
African cable initiatives but there certainly enough to make it 
difficult to keep it all straight.

I created a short page listing the various cables and their key 
investors at 
http://manypossibilities.net/2008/02/african-undersea-cables/ and a map 
of some of the initiatives at 
http://manypossibilities.net/2008/02/african-undersea-cables-map/  If 
anyone has maps or even rough diagrams of Uhurunet or Infraco's 
initiatives, I would be grateful to be able to add it to the map.

Also, if anyone can point me to more information on Flag's Next 
Generation Network (NGN) or the Main One initiative, I would be very 
interested to hear about it.

Thanks... Steve

P.S.  I see today that VSNL (now rebranded as Tata Communications) have 
announced a 50 million dollar investment in Seacom 
(http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=146025).  Only two 
weeks ago, there was news announcing their investment in EASSy 
(http://www.telecomtiger.com/fullstory.aspx?storyid=527).   In the wake 
of flagging profits, they are obviously betting a lot on Africa.

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