Africa Telecoms Magazine - April 2010
Until recently, Africa had some of the highest international bandwidth costs anywhere in the world. Although it varied from country to country, the international element of the cost to the consumer was a significant proportion of the overall cost he or she paid. The same was true for institutional users…
With the recent and impending arrival on the continent of undersea broadband cables equivalent to many terabytes of bandwidth, the question turns to the relevance and demand for satellite communications. In an exclusive interview with Africa Telecoms, Flavien Bachabi, Intelsat's Regional Vice President for Africa, shares some of the company's…
Africa Telecoms attended the recent Inaugural Qualcomm CDMA Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, to find out more about the future of the technology. The goal of the Summit was to bring together the entire CDMA ecosystem in Africa for discussion, debate and information sharing. Each African market has its own unique…
As this issue of Africa Telecoms is focusing on satellite and fibre in Africa, do you feel that these communications technologies will work together concurrently in the future or will one or the other dominate within an African context? We are already seeing the migration of international connectivity from satellite…
.... but satellite newcomer, O3b could change the game in 2011... With the number of undersea fibre-optic cables it has lit-up over the past year and a number of new connectivity projects due for completion in the next 18 months, Africa is swiftly leaving its ‘dark continent’ nickname behind and…
The launch of 4Mbps uncapped DSL services for under ZAR500 a month seemed too good to be true to Brett Haggard at the time. As it turns out, it was ... So uncapped DSL Internet connectivity has arrived in South Africa and we should all rush out and get ourselves…
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