Seacom said recently that the Master Services Agreement, signed on Wednesday with Mozambique’s leading telecommunications service provider, would see its customers gain access to diverse routes to Zimbabwe and additional border presence with Malawi and South Africa.
“This agreement gives SEACOM and its customers access to the largest and most distributed fibre optic network in Mozambique as well as a diverse route into Zimbabwe and additional border presence into Malawi and South Africa,” said company spokesman, Frederic Cornet.
“Through this agreement, customers in Zimbabwe are able to interconnect to the SEACOM system in Maputo via Mutare. This additional route through Mozambique complements SEACOM’s existing route through South Africa via Beit Bridge and provides Zimbabwean customers with resiliency and redundancy.”
“SEACOM believes in a world where the African Internet experience is characterized by abundant local content, minimal latency, fast download and streaming speeds, and interconnected African markets,” said the company’s CEO, Brian Herlihy.
The cable was privately financed and developed, and brings more affordable broadband capacity to Africa through the sale of wholesale international bandwidth and associated services on an open-access basis, which have been offered since the cable went live in July 2009.
It stretches 17 000 km along the eastern and southern African coastlines and onwards to India and Europe. The Seacom system has already connected countries including South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
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