COMTEL Project
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COMTEL Project is a program of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) aimed at creating a regional telecommunications infrastructure[1] for the 21 member states via a fiber backbone. This will help member states get rid of satellite links they currently use for their transit traffic between themselves going via Europe, America and Asia.
Implementation
[edit]COMESA reportedly made a deal with Anderberg-Ericsson Consortium of Mauritius as the strategic equity partner[2] but it was later reported that Ericsson would not become an equity partner.[3] On 26 February 2007 it was reported that the COMTEL Project had stalled and that individual member countries would develop their own regional telecommunication infrastructures.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "COMTEL Project Under Intense Scrutiny". www.panapress.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-214/telecoms/comesa-selects-ander/en
- ^ http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-262/top-story/heavy-blow-to-comtel/en
- ^ Malakata, Michael. "Comtel project stalls as countries go their own way". Network World. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
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