[UgaBYTES] Poverty , Illiteracy could lead to undeutilization of Fibre Optic Capacity

[George Obol]

This is how the story ran at Prime Radio 91.9FM KIREKA P.O BOX 22 K'LA

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Oboliangor George William                  18.09.09
 
POVERTY, ILLITERACY, COULD LEAD TO UNDERUTILIZATION OF FIBRE OPTIC CAPACITY
 
Telecom operators and investors in Africa face a dilemma, as to whether the expected level of demand is worth the huge capital investment into the submarine fibre optic cable currently available to the continent.
 
The Support Community Facilitator UgaBYTES Initiatives, Francis Mwathi says a total of seven undersea fibre optic cables, with an aggregate capacity of 10.94 terabytes have landing stations along the entire coastline around Africa.

Mwathi adds that a panel of five telecom experts at the Telecom World Africa 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa, noted that even though the submarine fibre optic technology promised faster speed communication at affordable rates for Africans, there is a danger most of it will remain redundant due to low demand.

He says each of the Telecom Experts pointed out the consumption of fibre optics technology saying its more in data and internet communication than in voice, saying that the high level of illiteracy, low access to computers, power supply bottlenecks and the inability of carriers to pay for fibre optics, raised concerns about how much of fibre optics would be consumed on the continent.
 
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 On Thu, 9/17/09, Mwathi Francis <mfrancis at ugabytes.org> wrote:

From: Mwathi Francis <mfrancis at ugabytes.org>
Subject: [UgaBYTES] Poverty , Illiteracy could lead to undeutilization of Fibre Optic Capacity
To: "ugabytes" <ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org>, "kentel" <kentel at list.kenyatelecentres.org>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 1:43 AM



Telecom operators and investors in Africa face a dilemma, as to whether the
expected level of demand is worth the huge capital investment into the
submarine fibre optic cable currently available to the continent. A total of
seven undersea fibre optic cables, with an aggregate capacity of 10.94
terabytes (10,940 gigabytes), have landing stations along the entire coast
line around Africa.

A panel of five telecom experts at the ongoing Telecom World Africa 2009 in
Cape Town, South Africa, noted on Wednesday that even though the submarine
fibre optic technology promised faster speed communication at affordable
rates for Africans, there is a danger most of it will remain redundant due
to low demand.

They each pointed out that the consumption of fibre optics technology was
more in data and internet communication than in voice, saying that the high
level of illiteracy, low access to computers, power supply bottlenecks and
the inability of carriers to pay for fibre optics raised concerns about how
much of fibre optics would be consumed on the continent.
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Francis Mwathi
Support Community Facilitator
UgaBYTES Initiatives (www.ugabytes.org)
Telecentr.org (www.telecentrecommunity.ning.com)
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