The third undersea fibre optic cable to Kenya will be commercially available to service providers at the end of this week. The East Africa Submarine System (EASSy) is expected to go live on Friday, ...

Geneva — This is a psychological blow to the initiative, which has already received a big body blow when 16 of the 23 member countries behind the initiative snubbed the signing of the implementation ...

South Africa is opting out of the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSY) broadband cable project and will develop its own US$700 million undersea cable that will connect to London and South ...

In a move that is likely to boost connectivity of the East African region with the rest of the world, Bharti Airtel together with a global telecoms provider has announced the launch of the EASSy cable ...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will invest in the East African Submarine Cable System, a landmark fiber-optic cable project that will connect 21 African countries to each other and the rest of ...

Construction of the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSY) project got under way Friday, after being delayed for almost two years by squabbling by project members and a lack of financial resources ...

The Eastern and Southern African regions are still grappling with slow and intermittent Internet communications after a ship sliced three major undersea broadband cables in the Indian Ocean and the ...