June 18, 2012
The Malawian government is seeking credible companies to provide international broadband in a public-private partnership (PPP), TradeInvest reported. The project will involve installing and operating a fibre optic cable from Lilongwe to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and onward transit over submarine fibre optic cable. The government plans to utilise a portion of the loan it acquired from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) for the Malawi Regional Communication Infrastructure Programme to fund the broadband project. The government is now inviting pre-qualifying bids from companies.
June 18, 2012
A proposal to offer broadband services, including television, telephone and Internet, in Brigham City is “a business experiment.”
June 18, 2012
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has signalled his support for a community super-fast broadband scheme in rural north Lancashire.
June 18, 2012
The Cook Islands Government says it is contemplating installing an undersea fibre-optic cable to enhance telecommunications.
June 18, 2012
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) is in the process of upgrading its inter-campus bandwidth to ensure that all its campuses have access to the “best and fastest bandwidth available”. It has partnered with Dimension Data on the Inter-Campus Link Upgrade (ICLU) project.
June 14, 2012
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has snapped up a $233 million, five-year task order to provide managed data services to the Social Security Administration via its seat on the General Service Administration's (GSA) Networx Universal contract.