[afnog] med cables

Tayeb Meftah tayeb.meftah at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 08:59:48 UTC 2012


Algeria there was cable
Droped cause orascom was not legaly operating it
Thank

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Le 14 juin 2012 à 09:46, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com> a écrit :

>
>
> On 6/14/12 9:38 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> is it true that i-me-we and eig do not touch down in algeria, tunisia,
>> or maroc?  if not, will they?
>>
>
> According to the Africa undersea cable maps by Steve Song (which is
> quite accurate) they don't touch the 3 countries.
>
> http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
>
> As to whether they will, that's a good question. Considering that the
> cables are operational, it depends on if there were provisions made in
> the cable design for additional landings, NO?. Most importantly,
> considering that these countries have alternatives to Europe - where
> most of their traffic is destined to, the economics would need to make
> sense for the cable consortium owners/operators to admit new
> entrants/landing points.
>
> However am not knowledgeable about North Africa to give an informed
> response :(.
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Michuki
>
>
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