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Seacom laying Africa undersea cable

on November 22, 2007

Mauritius-based private equity venture Seacom has started the construction of a fibre optic cable that will link southern and east Africa with India and Europe.

The $650 million project covers more than 15,000 kilometres to link South Africa to India and France through Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania. It is expected to provide first broadband access to countries in East Africa, which are currently using satellite connections.

In a similar project, NEPAD e-Africa Commission signed a deal with an American firm 5-P Holdings in November 2007 for the construction of an undersea submarine cable to link every country in Africa with the outside world.

This is a joint project between African investors and US telecommunications development company Herakles Telecom. The cable will be ready to…

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Tags: Africa, Alcatel-Lucent, broadband access, East Africa, Europe, fibre optic, France, Herakles Telecom, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, satellite connections, South Africa, Tanzania, telecommunications development, United States, USD.

Trials of 100 Mpbs Mobile Broadband is on track?

Chanuka Wattegama

on November 12, 2007

The first phase in a trial of an evolved version of today’s mobile phone radio access technology designed to deliver much higher wireless data rates has proven a success.

The LTE / SAE (Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution) Trial Initiative (LSTI) launched in May this year has reported the successful delivery of the first in a series of test results aimed at proving the potential and benefits of LTE, which is being standardized by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as a next generation mobile broadband technology.

The Initiative was founded by leading telecommunications companies Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, France Telecom/Orange, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, T-Mobile and Vodafone, and was recently expanded with China Mobile, Huawei, LG Electronics, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Signalion, Telecom Italia and ZTE joining as…

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Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Broadband, China Mobile, end users wireless access, Ericsson, France Telecom/Orange, higher wireless data rates, Huawei, LG Electronics, LTE/SAE technology, mobile broadband technology, mobile phone radio access technology, multimedia applications, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Signalion, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia, telecommunications, Vodafone, wireless access, ZTE.

The Chinese are coming

Rohan Samarajiva

on October 27, 2007

The stunning impact of the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers observed in South Asia in as early as 2005 is now being observed in the balance sheets of the old established equipment suppliers.

Telecoms-equipment makers | Toughing it out | Economist.com

First, the market for wireless networks is beginning to mature. After years of bumper profits, telecoms operators are facing more competition and are having to cut costs. In America carriers have delayed purchases, which explains much of what went wrong for Alcatel-Lucent. In Europe operators are increasingly renting their networks out to virtual service providers and are sharing capacity. That has allowed them to delay network upgrades which would otherwise have boosted Ericsson’s and other telecoms-equipment firms’ earnings.

Second, Western firms face competition from two Chinese companies,…

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Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, America, Ericsson, Europe, USD, wireless networks.

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