Africa: Fixed and Wireless Broadband and Internet Markets and Forecasts

Dublin, Ireland, October 7, 2011-International fibre optic cables are revolutionising Africa's Internet and broadband sector. Large parts of Africa gained access to international fibre bandwidth for the first time via submarine cables in 2009 and 2010. In other parts of the continent, additional fibre systems have brought competition to a previously monopolised market. More cables are expected to go online in 2011 and 2012. This has led to massive investments into terrestrial fibre backbone infrastructure to take the new bandwidth to population centres in the interior and across borders into landlocked countries, according to a new report by Research and Markets.