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June 8, 2011 08:32 am GMT
Seventeen years ago Wired published Neal Stephenson's magisterial epic "Mother Earth Mother Board", about the web of undersea fibre-optic cables being built to connect all of humanity. Well - almost all. Africa, again, was left behind. Until 2009, all of East Africa could only connect to the Internet over slow and hugely expensive satellite links.Finally, two years ago, SEACOM laid a cable along the East African coast to Mumbai; then tributaries were run thousands of kilometers inland, as far as Uganda and even Rwanda; and later this year, a direct connection to Europe will be lit up. This has chopped the cost of bandwidth from US $5,000 per megabit/s per month to approximately $100, hugely increased capacity to 1.28 terabits/second, and given more than 100 million people (and counting) access to broadband Internet for the very first time. Today I visited their cable landing site in Mombasa, Kenya, armed with a camera.
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Seventeen years ago Wired published Neal Stephenson's magisterial epic "Mother Earth Mother Board", about the web of undersea fibre-optic cables being built to connect all of humanity. Well - almost all. Africa, again, was left behind. Until 2009, all of East Africa could only connect to the Internet over slow and hugely expensive satellite links.Finally, two years ago, SEACOM laid a cable along the East African coast to Mumbai; then tributaries were run thousands of kilometers inland, as far as Uganda and even Rwanda; and later this year, a direct connection to Europe will be lit up. This has chopped the cost of bandwidth from US $5,000 per megabit/s per month to approximately $100, hugely increased capacity to 1.28 terabits/second, and given more than 100 million people (and counting) access to broadband Internet for the very first time. Today I visited their cable landing site in Mombasa, Kenya, armed with a camera.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vwkhdJepCXQ/
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