New fibre optic sub-sea cable goes live today, creating a digital superhighway from Africa to Europe, Asia and beyond
[23 July, 2009] – SEACOM’s sub-sea cable has launched today, providing southern and eastern Africa with high capacity connectivity at much lower rates than traditional satellite networks. The 17,000 kilometre intercontinental fibre optic network will also connect [...]

Blue Ocean Wireless (”BOW”), an Irish company delivering GSM communication capability for the merchant maritime sector, today announced its new, lower tariff of $0.99.
Blue Ocean subscribers can use their own mobile phones to keep in touch with friends and family around the globe for as little as 99 cent per minute using their own [...]