SEACOM : 44 Days Away from Completion

In the next months, Africa could hope for cheaper bandwidth price. Why ? .. Yes, right, SEACOM system shall be ready in the next couple of weeks. And they promised "We'll start the price war!". Well, I think there is currently still a few players on this business in Africa, means: the price would not be dropped very significantly. The "real" price war would happen if the other new systems connecting Africa to other regions are completed, which is likely to be happened after 2010. Any contra arguments ? :-D



SEACOM:

SEACOM provides high capacity bandwidth linking business and communities in Southern and East Africa, Europe and South Asia

SEACOM will be a full service provider of international fibre bandwidth along the East Coast of Africa to Southern Africa, Europe and Asia.

When it is fully functional in 2009, SEACOM will be a service provider of international fibre optic bandwidth along the East Coast of Africa linking Southern and East Africa, Europe and South Asia

SEACOM has an enormous capacity of 1.2TB/s, to enable high definition TV, peer to peer networks, IPTV, and surging Internet demand
Pricing will be significantly lower than current satellite or fibre pricing
SEACOM will be ready to serve Southern and East African markets from 2009, well in time to meet the bandwidth needs of the Confederations Cup and the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, and the growing requirements of the economies in the countries it serves.

SEACOM will be first to launch services with a planned Ready for Service date of June 2009

SEACOM is 77% African owned

Source SEACOM