Another step towards increased connectivity for Africans was achieved this weekend when the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) was anchored in Mtunzini, on the north coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal.

MTN, the largest investor in the construction of the cable, said it was pleased with the progress being made in the construction of the cable. “This will be the only landing of the EASSy cable in South Africa and heralds the start of the final stage of the long process of planning, financing, designing and building this important African East Coast consortium cable system,” the mobile phone group said on Friday.

EASSy is an undersea fibre-optic cable that will link the southern, eastern and northern Africa to the rest of the world through interconnection points to the existing global submarine cable network.

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