Some of Our Sources
- Mashable
- TutsPlus - Code
- Spoon Graphics
- Abduzeedo
- Vandelay Design
- Web Designer Depot
- Web Design Ledger
- CSS Tricks
- Spyre Studios
- Dev To
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
May 14, 2020 02:45 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Oxpdib0oxRE/faster-internet-coming-to-africa-with-facebooks-1-billion-cable
Faster Internet Coming To Africa With Facebook's $1 Billion Cable
Facebook and some of the world's largest telecom carriers including China Mobile are joining forces to build a giant sub-sea cable to help bring more reliable and faster internet across Africa. From a report: The cost of the project will be just under $1 billion, according to three people familiar with the project, who asking not to be identified as the budget hasn't been made public. The 37,000-kilometer (23,000 miles) long cable -- dubbed 2Africa -- will connect Europe to the Middle East and 16 African countries, according to a statement on Thursday. The undersea cable sector is experiencing a resurgence. During the 1990s dot-com boom, phone companies spent more than $20 billion laying fiber-optic lines under the oceans. Now tech giants, led by Facebook and Alphabet's Google, are behind about 80% of the recent investment in transatlantic cable, driven by demand for fast-data transfers used for streaming movies to social messaging.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Oxpdib0oxRE/faster-internet-coming-to-africa-with-facebooks-1-billion-cable
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..More About this Source Visit Slashdot