MTN’s EASSy lands in Mtunzini (Africa)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The landing of East African Submarine System at Mtunzini on the north coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa has been confirmed by South African mobile group MTN. Broadband capacity will be boosted by EASSy which will also facilitate ongoing efforts to provide its customers with more affordable access to broadband. The network will be commercially launched in the second quarter of 2010.

According to MTN Group’s Trevor Martins, who is also the EASSy management committee chairman, over the past years MTN has been a pioneer in pursuing opportunities by investing in technologies, businesses and licenses which enhance the delivery of services in data and internet protocol connectivity and EASSy is one of such investments.

The investments in these submarine networks will increase the bandwidth and it will also capacitate both ISPs and mobile operations in markets largely serviced by costly satellite bandwidth, thus enabling MTN to open up large-scale access to international broadband to the firm’s valued customers.