News: June 2009
[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
New e-Govt Project gets Singapore Firm
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MTN invests in $700m Europe-India cable
The MTN Group is investing in a new $700 million submarine cable system, the European Indian Gateway (EIG), to be built by Alcatel-Lucent starting next month. The 15,000 kilometre-long high bandwidth optical-fibre will connect Europe and India from the United Kingdom to Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.
Pan-african e-network
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The former President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, while addressing during one of the sessions of the Pan-African Parliament
African ministers to sign on fibre-project protocol
Eastern and Southern African communication ministers are going to sign the official protocol for the region’s ICT broadband infrastructure network, that includes the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), by month-end.
