Neotel Promisses Cheap Broadband in South Africa After SEACOM Arrives

Jani Meyer
August 19 2007 at 12:04PM

Access to cheap broadband in South Africa is no longer a pipe-dream, after multi-billion-dollar deals were signed to construct underwater cables connecting the East Coast of Africa to India and Italy.

Neotel, the second fixed-line operator in the country, said the project would be up and running by early 2009 and it would slash Telkom’s prices.
Telkom controls the ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) and the local loop that links homes to the telecommunications exchanges in South Africa.

The “connecting” plant of Neotel will be at Mtunzini in Northern KwaZulu-Natal.
The Seacom (Sea Cable System) is being developed at a cost of more than $550-million (R3,8-billion).

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