Equiano undersea Internet cable steps closer to landing in South Africa [Mybroadband, July 2022]

Title:

Equiano undersea Internet cable steps closer to landing in South Africa

 

Author:

Rual de Vries

 

Published:

Mybroadband, 4 July 2022

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/451214-equiano-undersea-internet-cable-steps-closer-to-landing-in-south-africa.html

From the article:

Paratus Group has announced that it has landed Google’s Equiano submarine Internet cable in Swakopmund, Namibia.  

 

Equiano’s Swakopmund landing comes three months after it came ashore in Lagos, Nigeria.

News24, 14 May 2020 - Massive undersea cable project set to give Africa internet boost

Title:
Massive undersea cable project set to give Africa internet boost

Published:
News24, 14 May 2020

From the article:
"Telecoms and internet giants unveiled on Thursday a mammoth project to lay a subsea cable around Africa to boost internet access to the underserved continent.  

The consortium, which includes China Mobile International, Facebook, Orange and Vodafone, said a cable 37 000km long will make landfall in 16 countries in Africa and the Middle East."

To read more:
https://m.news24.com/Africa/News/massive-undersea-cable-project-set-to-give-africa-internet-boost-20200514

SOUTH AFRICA - An undersea internet cable critical to SA’s global connections just broke again

Title:
An undersea internet cable critical to SA’s global connections just broke again

Published:
Business Insider South Africa, 28 March 2020

From the article:
"The West African Cable System (Wacs) is broken again, the South African National Research & Education Network reported early on Saturday morning."

To read this article:
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/wacs-undersea-internet-cable-is-broken-again-2020-3

SOUTH AFRICA: Damaged Wacs cable only likely to be fixed on 8 February - TechCentral

Title:
Damaged Wacs cable only  likely to be fixed on 8 February

Author:
Duncan McLeod

Published:
TechCentral, 27 January 2020

From the article:
"The Wacs cable, one of two cable systems damaged earlier this month due to a suspected undersea earthquake, will probably only be fixed on 8 February."

To read this article:
https://techcentral.co.za/damaged-wacs-cable-only-likely-to-be-fixed-on-8-february/95452/

Not good news for South African internet users 

as this is one of the cables connecting South Africa to Europe 

via the west coast of Africa!

For more information, see also:
African Undersea Cables & South Africa: Slow internet could last another two weeks, published on 24 January 2020

African Undersea Cables & South Africa: Slow internet could last another two weeks

A. The African Undersea Cables Matrix:
A tentative map depicting the African undersea fibre cables powering the internet by 2021 was updated in July 2019. The information is also availabe in French now.

To sea this map, go to:
https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/


B. South Africa: Slow internet could last another two weeks
Title:
Slow internet could last another two weeks

Author:
Nokukhanya N Mntambo

Published:
Jacarandafm, 22 January 2020

From the short article:
"It might take another two weeks for a ship to reach and repair one of two damaged undersea cables that have slowed down the internet in South Africa."

To read this article:
https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/slow-internet-could-last-another-two-weeks/