COMTEL Project
COMTEL Project was a program of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) aimed at creating a regional telecommunications infrastructure[1] for the 21 member states via a fiber backbone. This would have helped member states to get rid of satellite links they used for their transit traffic between themselves going via Europe, America and Asia.
Implementation
[edit source]COMESA had allegedly entered into an agreement with the Anderberg-Ericsson Consortium of Mauritus as a strategic equity partner;[2] however, it was subsequently reported that Ericsson would not participate as an equity partner.[3] On February 26, 2007, it was announced that the COMTEL Project had encountered delays, leading to individual member countries developing their own regional telecommunication infrastructures.[4] After failing to take-off following 20 years of trial, the project was officially scrapped in 2021 following a meeting of the ICT ministers of COMESA member countries.[5]
References
[edit source]- ↑ "COMTEL Project Under Intense Scrutiny". www.panapress.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Malakata, Michael. "Comtel project stalls as countries go their own way". Network World. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ↑ "COMESA Telecoms Project Dropped, 20 Years Later After Failing to Take-off". COMESA. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
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