The much awaited East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), which was expected to land at Mtunzini, KwaZulu Natal (KZN), South Africa, during the weekend, has finally landed this morning at 8.04am, ...

The East African Submarine Cable System (EASSY) landed this week in Mombasa, Kenya, bringing the construction phase of the project closer to completion. Fiber optics, however, have not yet brought ...

“The land cable that runs between the landing stations will also be shipped and installed soon,” Last said via e-mail. Once the cable arrives in Maputo, Last said, it will be transferred onto a barge ...

WIOCC leaders James Wekesa and Chris Wood (right) go through a map on a laptop showing where the East African Submarine Cable system (EASSy) will pass. Photo/FILE The imminent arrival of Kenya’s third ...

The project involves the laying of a submarine fibre-optic cable to connect East African countries with the rest of the world. The proposed East African Submarine Cable will provide the last link to ...

On top of that, the Kenya government has pulled out of the EASSy project and is instead planning to build a submarine cable of its own. Kenya’s lone fibre optic cable is expected to cost $110m and ...

Feasibility studies for the East Africa Submarine cable system (EASSY) have been completed, paving way for the project to be operational in the first quarter of 2009, according to project coordinator ...

Technicians and business developers from seven countries convened at Serena Hotel in Rubavu Wednesday to design and develop a time line for the $250 million (Frw135.9 billion) Eastern Africa Submarine ...

Several links on the Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) have been offline since Tuesday due to shunt fault, MyBroadband has learned. An industry source with knowledge of the situation explained ...

Johannesburg — PLANS by the government to prevent a $235m telecoms cable around Africa's east coast from landing in SA would be denying citizens access to cheap bandwidth and practising double ...

Dubai, UAE – EASSy, the 10,000-kilometer submarine cable system traversing Africa’s east and south coasts, is leveraging Ciena's (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh Extreme, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent ...