- Main Street Technologies Press Release
- ERM & FUGRO awarded ESIA contract
Competition by submarine cable operators may drive down call rates
http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/compulife/article01/230708
Race to build a West Coast fibre promises to push international bandwidth prices to new lows
Four international fibre projects are racing to complete ahead of each other on the west coast of Africa to give some much needed additional capacity and price competition to SAT3. The drop in bandwidth prices could be spectacular. Russell Southwood looks at the runners in the race and asks whether West Africa is ready for the potentially market-changing impact of cheap international bandwidth
- Telecoms competition is still infrastructure-based, not service delivery yet says
- Work begins on N5.4b sub-marine optical fibre cable
- 1st Annual Africa Leadership Forum
- ITU Africa Connect
- Main Street Technologies in the news
- Nigeria's Mainstreet Technologies to build new international west coast fibre
- Kenya rolls out fibre optics plan
Nigeria's Mainstreet Technologies to build new international west coast fibre
Mainstreet Technologies threw its hat in the ring this week to be the first to complete an African west coast fibre project to compete with SAT3. The cable will connect 12 countries, some already connected to SAT3, others not. Russell Southwood spoke to the project's CEO Funke Opeke and discovered how it intends to win the race to complete.
Nigerian Funke Opeke spent 20 years in the USA working in technology companies(including Verizon's international and wholesale divisions) before coming back to work for a spell as CEO of the incumbent Nitel. It was out of this that she recognised that "after two years in Nigeria how painful the infrastructure limitations were." So in May 2007 she set out to build a new competitor cable to SAT3:"I want to do something for the region and this cable makes good sense both in commercial and development terms." read more
Events
WATRA SAT3 Workshop, Abuja, Nigeria
SEPTEMBER 11 - 12, 2007
AFRICA CONNECT Conference, Rwanda
OCTOBER 29 - 30, 2007
ICT Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
FEBRUARY 13 - 15, 2008