Facebook：アフリカで海底ケーブルの計画：’2Africa’プロジェクト（動画）：
Facebook: Submarine Cable Plans in Africa:’2Africa’ Project：
Facebook：非洲海底电缆计划：“ 2Africa”项目
Facebook：
- Facebookグループ
- チャイナモバイル
- MTN GlobalConnect、
- オレンジ
- ボーダフォン、
アフリカと中東での、海底ケーブル/共同敷設を、計画しています。
2Africa：プロジェクト
37,000 km（22,990マイル）に伸びるケーブルを敷設し、相互接続するもの。
- ヨーロッパ（エジプト経由で東向き）、
- 中東（サウジアラビア経由）、
- アフリカの16カ国で利用予定。
In a joint statement,
the companies said they expect the system to be live by 2023 or early 2024.
Once live, it should be able to deliver more than the total combined capacity of all subsea cables serving Africa today, with a design capacity of up to 180Tbps on key parts of the system.
The companies, which also includes
- Saudi Arabia-based telecom firm STC,
- Telecom Egypt,
- African telecom firm WIOCC,
say service providers in the countries where 2Africa cable lands will obtain capacity in carrier-neutral data centres or open-access cable landing stations on a fair and equitable basis.
Facebook and telecom operators
did not reveal how much money they were investing on the project.
TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/2africa-africa-middle-east-facebook-subsea-cable/
Africa Telcos Threatened As Facebook, Google Plan Cable –
Telecoms operators
have expressed worry that the unchecked deployment of undersea cables and fibre optic infrastructure in Nigeria will threaten their survival.
They said that free access to Internet services that Over The Top players such as Facebook offered was a threat to the investments of mobile network operators.
They made this known while responding to recent news that Facebook in collaboration with a group of telecom companies
are set to connect Nigeria and 22 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe to the Internet by laying a large subsea cable with about 180Tbps capacity by 2024.
Also, Google
had last year announced plans to build a new private subsea cable that would connect Africa with Europe, with its first landing in Nigeria by 2021.
SubTel Forum
https://subtelforum.com/africa-telcos-threatened-as-facebook-google-plan-cable/