The long awaited SEACOM cable is officially ready for service after eighteen months of 
feasibility studies and shareholder agreements, a nine month marine survey and a nineteen month cable construction period.
The $600-million, 15 000 km submarine fibre-optic cable system has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbps and will effectively link Cape Town and Johannesburg with London using Neotel as a partner.
“From today, the 1.28Tbps 15,000km undersea fibre-optic cable system will provide African retail carriers with equal and open access to affordable bandwidth, removing national backhaul and international infrastructure bottlenecks, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of east and southern African economies,” SEACOM said in its official blog.
