Neotel joins Seacom project(South Africa)South Africa’s new operator Neotel has agreed to join the Seacom international subsea cable project. Neotel has signed a Cable Development Agreement with Seacom for landing and commercial operations of the international cable system in South Africa. The Seacom project is one of several underway aimed at improving international connectivity and lowering bandwidth costs in Africa. It will connect south and east Africa to India and Europe, with a capacity of 1.28 Tbps. Neotel will own the cable landing station and all facilities within the South African territory and open the system for access by all operators. It will also facilitate a backhaul network to its point of presence in Johannesburg, run in connection with its shareholder and international carrier VSNL. Seacom expects to have the system operational in early 2009.
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