London — Data demand in Africa continues to grow strongly through a combination of reduced wholesale and retail prices and new digital services. This demand is driving a third generation of cables to connect the continent. Russell Southwood spoke to Antonio Nunes, CEO, Angola Cables about one of the newest entrants, the SACS cable.
Africa's first generation international fibre cable was SAT3. It opened the door for the second generation with Main One, Glo One, WACS, ACE, Seacom, Eassy LION and all the rest. The third generation cables are the multiple projects wanting to build on the east coast of the continent and new routes from West Africa like SACS and CBCS from Cameroon.
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