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Article: Uganda : Uganda's largest ISP signs onto SEACOM.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- August 27, 2009
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Byline: pinto03
Uganda's largest ISP (Internet service provider), Uganda Telecom, has agreed to begin using the SEACOM submarine cable, to the relief of its customers who are eager for a high-speed broadband experience.
SEACOM went live late last month, but it has taken weeks for it to close a service level agreement with Uganda Telecom, which controls 70 percent of the Internet market here. SEACOM's undersea fiber-optic cable system will provide African carriers with access to relatively inexpensive bandwidth, relieving the international infrastructure bottleneck and, it is hoped, supporting eastern and southern African economic growth.
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