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Undersea Cables Update

By Steve Song, on October 16th, 2008

I’ve now moved the African Undersea Cables map to a permanent page that I will update as new information emerges. The latest revision includes updates of: the EASSy cable to reflect its growth to 1.4 terabits the TEAMS cable to reflect its growth to 1.2 terabits (120 gigabits initial) the SAT3 cable to remove the [...] [...]

Sub-saharan Africa Undersea Cables in 2010 – take 7

By Steve Song, on September 25th, 2008

The undersea cable environment around the African continent continues to evolve. Proposed cables appear, disappear, merge. A testament to the competitive environment. In this latest update, I have added the MaIN OnE cable which appears to be making progress. Thanks to Abi Jagun for finding their real website. In the meantime Infraco AWCC, SAT4, and [...] [...]

The OLPC Effect

By Steve Song, on August 4th, 2008

he One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project comes in for a lot of criticism for being, among other things, “centralised and top-down”. Critics also argue that academia and philanthropy should not be interfering in areas where the market is clearly in a better place both to innovate and to sustain new technologies in the marketplace. [...] [...]