Monday, 5 October 2009

Ghana gets wired

Dear all, after a long break, Radio Ghana is back on air.

So welcome back to Accra, where the rainy season is over and new flashy buildings are popping up like mushrooms.

Piece of exciting news: A branch of the GLO-1 submarine cable connecting Lagos to London has recently reached Accra. It should be operational in 2 - 3 years (the infrastructure is nowhere near to be ready yet) and it is expected to lower costs and improve quality of internet connections significantly.
You can see GLO-1 in yellow in on the map underneath (kindly borrowed from here). Interestingly, GLO-1 is the only submarine cable completely owned by 1 person.

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