| Title: | ASIA PACIFIC TELECOM |
| Price: | $266.00 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 12, 2008 |
| Source: | INFORMATION GATEKEEPERS NEWSLETTERS |
| Brief Excerpt: | ...expensive fiber-optic cable for linking the countries to each other as well as intercontinental networks. The Indian Ocean Commission had recently approved this fiber-optic project at the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Forum in Ethiopia. The aim of this project is to encourage telecom/economic development in the Indian Ocean nations. In ####, a feasibility study was conducted to assess the demand for Internet services in five countries addressed by the Indian Ocean Commission: Mauritius, Madagascar, R union, Seychelles, and Comoros.The study revealed that these Indian Ocean counties have to rely heavily on satellite for global communications. The fiber-optic cable would hook the five nations to each other and subsequently connect them with the cables which link Africa to the rest of the world. Once completed, the fiber-optic cable would link to Africa-based intercontinental cables like East Africa Submarine cable system (EASSy) and SAT#/SAFE (South Atlantic # and South Africa... |
| Length: | 20 Pages
(19 Billable Pages)
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| Geographic Region: | ASIA |
| Industry: | TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| Non-Billable Page Numbers: | 20 |
| Format: | 
Adobe Acrobat
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