African communications
This image (culled from Agodi News) shows how isolated Africa is in terms of subterranean/submarine communications links. Nigerians as with other Sub-Saharans have to rely on extortionately expensive, outmoded and unreliable VSAT equipment for internet access. Everyone here is hoping that the forthcoming NITEL sale will make the SAT-3 cable available much more widely (and competitively). Let's see.
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The SAT-3/WASC undersea fibre optic cable is still yet to be fully commissioned by Nitel in Nigeria. This facility has the ability to open a lot of business in Nigeria as well remove the dependence on Microwave and VSAT communication systems.
I hope one day that the EASSy(East Africa Submarine cable), SAFE, Sea-Me-We-3, SAT-3 and Atlantis 2 will all be fully operational to provide cheap communications connectivity to the homes of the average African.
Ugo Okafor
Let's keep hoping that NITEL sale will go thru successfully and this will definitely be a positive turning poing for Nigerian comunication just like the GSM technology boomed ...
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