South Africa: Seacom Switch-On Hailed By Industry

Johannesburg — THE telecommunications industry has greeted the switching on of Seacom with delight, hoping the fibreoptic cable will quickly deliver cheaper prices and faster bandwidth for all.

The 600m, 17000km cable linking SA and several east African countries to India and Europe will provide bandwidth at speeds of 1,28 terabytes per second. In layman's terms, the average home internet user downloads 1GB of data a month, while Seacom can download 160GB every second.

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