Survey vessel Fugro Gauss makes pit-stop in
Following the announcement by SEACOM in December 2007 that the marine survey from South Africa to Kenya had been successfully completed and that construction was underway, the survey vessel “Fugro Gauss”, which began its surveying work in June 2007 off the South African shore, is scheduled to arrive in the Dar Es Salaam harbour today to mobilise before moving on North.
Results from the survey have been very encouraging and construction has already started on the planned 13,700 km undersea fiber optic network which will provide high capacity bandwidth connectivity between
Commenting on the project, Brian Herlihy, President of SEACOM, said: “We are delighted with the progress made to date. With the construction now underway, we are on schedule to meet our June 2009 deadline, well in time to meet the bandwidth needs of the Confederations Cup and the 2010 Soccer World Cup in
We are very upbeat and look forward to the next 18 months as SEACOM powers ahead to become a real and tangible partner to the bandwidth hungry African economies that it will serve.”
SEACOM, which is privately funded and over three quarter African owned, will assist communication carriers in South and
