Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,194,223 members, 7,953,842 topics. Date: Friday, 20 September 2024 at 07:43 AM |
Nairaland Forum / Science/Technology / Phones / Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. (849 Views)
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Building Ground Stations In Lagos, Ogun And Rivers State / Facebook Is Monitoring Me / Glo Introduces Glo 2 Submarine Cable For High Speed Data And Browsing (2) (3) (4)
Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by Sunkanmiwise(m): 8:51am On May 17, 2020 |
World’s largest social media company, Facebook is designing a massive underwater cable around Nigeria and other African countries, bringing high-speed connectivity to the continent’s 1.3 billion inhabitants. Facebook has partnered with the likes of South Africa’s MTN, Britain’s Vodafone, France’s Orange, and China Mobile, and other Africa based operators called 2Africa to build the laudable project, which worth about $1 billion. According to Bloomberg, Facebook has assigned Nokia-owned cable systems providers and others to build the subsea cable. At 37,000 km, Facebook claims the internet cable will equal the total distance covered round earth. The main object of this massive project, Facebook says, is to bring efficient and high-speed internet connectivity to citizens of Africa. Africa is “currently the least connected” in the world, Facebook wrote in a blog post yesterday with just 25% of its population having access to the internet The submerged cable will interconnect 23 countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In addition, Facebook said it will “provide nearly three times the total network capacity of all the subsea cables serving Africa today.” Facebook explained that the 2Africa project will be made more efficient and durable using aluminium rather than copper, as these could help enhance network capacity. Source: https://spot.tecno.com/global/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=88341 1 Like 1 Share
|
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by IceLip: 8:57am On May 17, 2020 |
Facebook has come to stay in this our generation sha, kudos |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by tellsblinks(m): 10:04am On May 17, 2020 |
very nice Information, I really love mark Zuckerberg he sees money where people neglect it. kudos to him but oga why do you have to put a tecno picture alongside your post? did Facebook patner with tecno? abi is tecno among people doing the under water cable?? awon marketer!!! , I wonder if they pay Xiaomi marketers like this how this thread would have been? 4 Likes |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by PreciousDev: 10:27am On May 17, 2020 |
tellsblinks: Head ache is worrying his stomach |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by meobizy(f): 11:47am On May 17, 2020 |
This is old news and benefits Facebook majorly. If we have high speed data then it’ll help more people sign up and enjoy the service. Bible thumpers keep looking everywhere for the mark of the beast but the most obvious places. |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by Mohbola(f): 4:30pm On May 17, 2020 |
Good for him |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by DONFRANSKID(m): 5:02pm On May 17, 2020 |
Why am I seeing tecno phone?? We should have seen Nokia there not tecno |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by andelawhite: 6:26pm On May 21, 2020 |
This should bring some positive reform to Africa's internet. Kudos to him |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by ORIJIN201(m): 8:48pm On May 21, 2020 |
meobizy:Isn't it better? |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by meobizy(f): 9:31pm On May 21, 2020 |
ORIJIN201:For Facebook, yes. |
Re: Facebook Is Building $1 Billion High Speed Internet Across Africa. by ORIJIN201(m): 9:49pm On May 21, 2020 |
meobizy:You are talking as if Africa doesn't need a better internet service. For Africa, is it better? Yes, it is. |
(1) (Reply)
h / Redmi 9A / NEW iPhone 12 Pro Max Pacific Blue First Look - Massive !
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 19 |