Africa is the new battle ground for the Tatas and Reliance Communications. While Reliance’s 100% subsidiary Flag Telecom plans to build a cable system linking South Africa to Madagascar and Mauritius to expand its global network, Tatas-owned VSNL is in talks with the EASSy cable consortium, Africa’s upcoming cable system, to offer global connectivity on its network.

Last month, RCL chairman Anil Ambani had announced that Flag would invest $1.5 billion to lay an additional 50,000 km of undersea optic fibre capable of carrying voice, video and data, which would give the an additional capacity of 1.28 terabytes per second. The second phase of this cable is slated to cover Africa touching countries such as Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar and Mauritius.

This proposed cable is seen as a rival to upcoming…………..

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