Alcatel-Lucent signs deal with EASSy consortium to build undersea fiber-optic cable network

Africa & Middle East Telecom,  July, 2007  by Anonymous

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The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) consortium has signed a deal with Alcatel-Lucent for building an undersea fiber-optic cable network. The France-based company is not waiting for financial approval from financing agencies to initiate this project. Alcatel-Lucent had received a tender for constructing an EASSy system in July 2006; the project was then estimated to be worth $300 million.

Commercial services on the new network are likely to be launched in the third quarter of 2008. The EASSy project will reduce ...

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