MainOne, Pan-African submarine cable provider has announced the landing of its submarine cable in Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire. The project was carried out after MainOne received a landing license from the Cote D’Ivoire government. This landing marks the final phase of its ongoing expansion to connect Senegal with Cote d’Ivoire.
MainOne mentioned in a statement that landing of the cable in Cote d’Ivoire is the first commercial cable service to deploy spectrum sharing capabilities, which will deepen infrastructure sharing. It will also reduce the cost of delivering broadband services to West Africa.
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The cable will be connected to an existing unit on the MainOne cable trunk located offshore. It will grant operators’ access to share optical spectrum on the submarine pair of about 10 Terabits capacity. This will quicken the deployment of 4G and fixed broadband services across the region.
The new submarine cable will be connected to MainOne’s data centre in Abidjan. The centre was built with the cable landing station and it aims to house the infrastructure and facilitate the growth of Cote D’Ivoire’s digital economy.
Built to a Tier III standard, the centre is designed to address the needs of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom Operators and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), Global Content providers and Enterprises in need of affordable world-class infrastructure in Cote D’Ivoire.
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