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| Oct 7, 2026 | Seacom CEO Alpheus Mangale on special leave pending probe | Seacom CEO Alpheus Mangale
Seacom’s board has placed CEO Alpheus Mangale on special leave and appointed an independent third party to investigate allegations it received about how the company was being run, chairman Pieter Uys told TechCent... |
| Sep 7, 2026 | What Happens When The Internet Goes Down? | What if the internet didn’t come back after you restarted the router?
It’s pretty irritating when the problem is usually solved by switching the Wi-Fi off and on again and waiting for that orange light to turn green. But large-scale interne... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | South Africa’s fibre underdogs are beating the giants | A group of smaller fibre network operators (FNOs) have scored ahead of most of South Africa’s established players in the latest perception survey from the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), the officially recognised representat... |
| May 19, 2026 | Troubling questions over South African internet infrastructure attacks | The sheer scale of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on South African internet infrastructure in recent days does not make sense considering the relatively small amounts the attackers are trying to extort.
A senior South Afri... |
| May 14, 2026 | The lessons Seacom learnt from its massive 2024 outage | Richard Schumacher, MD of digital infrastructure at Seacom
When a Belize-flagged, UK-registered cargo ship called the Rubymar was struck by a Houthi missile in the Red Sea in February 2024, it began to drift. With its anchor down in shallow... |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Seacom targeting Q4 2026 to lock in funds for huge new broadband system | Seacom group chief digital officer Prenesh Padayachee
Seacom is targeting the fourth quarter of 2026 to reach financial close on its massive planned subsea broadband cable system that will connect Africa with Europe and Asia.
Dubbed Seacom ... |
| Nov 4, 2025 | South Africa: Teraco and Seacom Cable Fault Brings About Digital Load Shedding for Some | Another internet outage in South Africa shows us that the internet, much like an ogre and onion analogy, has layers. And you'd better have redundancy.
It was a cable break, but not in the way you'd expect. Service provider notific... |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Operadora quer construir “cabo submarino” em terra firme | Seacom avalia construir um "cabo submarino" em terra (ilustração: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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Seacom planeja construir um cabo submarino terrestre ligando Mombaç... |
| Oct 20, 2025 | From Seed to sovereignty: HV Capital’s expanding mandate across Europe | There’s a lot you can learn from how venture firms evolve — not just in what they invest in, but in how they run themselves. Take HV Capital. Late last year the firm completed a full handover from its four founding partners to a new generat... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Africa’s next terrestrial internet leap might come from the sea | The author, Seacom’s Nic Breytenbach
When it comes to digital infrastructure in Africa, few things are more pressing than the need for faster, more resilient and more direct connectivity between the continent’s east and west coasts.
As thin... |
| Oct 3, 2025 | TCS | Seacom 2.0: Alpheus Mangale unpacks all the details about the giant new subsea system | Seacom last week announced that it plans to build one of the highest-capacity subsea broadband cable systems the world has ever seen.
Dubbed Seacom 2.0, the cable system – which will have an expected design capacity of a staggering 2 000Tbi... |
| Oct 2, 2025 | South Africa is rapidly becoming a hyperconnected country | The capacity and reach of the undersea cable infrastructure connecting South Africa to the world is growing at a rapid pace, with a surge in AI workloads expected to drive further investment in infrastructure.
The type of company investing ... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | More details emerge on massive new Seacom cable | The Seacom 2.0 cable, Seacom’s planned 25 000km submarine broadband system announced earlier this week, will go live in late 2029 or early 2030, according to the company’s CEO, Alpheus Mangale.
Speaking exclusively to TechCentral in an epis... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Seacom 2.0: huge new subsea fibre system planned for Africa | Seacom, the company that constructed the first submarine cable along Africa’s east coast, connecting South Africa with Europe and Asia, has announced plans to build a massive new system along a similar route.
Called Seacom 2.0, the system w... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Submarine Networks World 2025 - the annual flagship event for the global subsea industry returns to Singapore in September. | SINGAPORE, Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Submarine Networks World, the No.1 annual event for subsea communications professionals returns to Singapore on September 24th and 25th.
Submarine Networks World 2025 returns to Singapore on Septemb... |
| Sep 8, 2025 | Critical internet arteries severed in the Red Sea – again | Internet connectivity in multiple countries in Asia and the Middle East has been affected by subsea cable outages in the Red Sea, according to internet monitoring group Netblocks.
Reuters reported on Monday that countries affected included ... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Red Sea cable break eats away at Seacom’s bottom line | Image generated in Dall-E – for illustration purposes only
The cost of repairing an undersea cable suspected of being damaged by a ship’s anchor in February 2024, has eaten away at Seacom’s profitability in the six months to 31 December 202... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | NetActuate Expands International Transit and Enhances Redundancy Across Key African Locations | Africa
NetActuate expands international transit and enhances redundancy across key African locations.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- NetActuate, a leading provider of global infrastructure and connectivity solutions, is pr... |
| Sep 13, 2024 | SUBSEA COMMUNICATIONS LEADERS COME TOGETHER FOR THE ANNUAL GLOBAL COVERAGE GATHERING AT SUBMARINE NETWORKS WORLD IN SINGAPORE | SINGAPORE, Sept. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Submarine Networks World, the world's largest annual gathering for subsea communications leaders, will once again convene in Singapore on September 25 and 26. Now in its 27th edition, Submarine... |
| Jul 31, 2024 | The AI Gold Rush: Powering the Future with Generative Intelligence | The tech world is buzzing. Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is the new gold rush. Major players are pouring money into this digital frontier. The stakes are high, and the potential rewards are astronomical. According to Goldman Sa... |
| Jul 26, 2024 | В Красном море завершён ремонт подводных телекоммуникационных кабелей между Европой и Азией, повреждённых в начале года | В Красном море завершился ремонт трёх подводных телекоммуникационных кабелей между Европой и Азией компаний AAE-1, EIG и Seacom; коммуникации повредили в феврале этого года, пишет Datacenter Dynamics со ссылкой на Министерство связи, информ... |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Bandwidth bonanza: the undersea cables that connect South Africa to the world | The 2Africa cable being brought ashore in Amanzimtoti, near Durban
Connectivity into South Africa – and the rest of Africa – has exploded in the past 15 years and continues to grow at a rapid pace.
It’s a marked change over a relatively sho... |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Safaricom under pressure for conflicting explanations over two-hour internet outage in Kenya | Kenyan telecoms giant Safaricom has come under pressure after it released conflicting statements on a nationwide internet outage on Tuesday. The disruption lasted over two hours and coincided with countrywide protests over the now-withdrawn... |
| May 23, 2024 | Seacom, Eassy repairs almost done off KZN coast | The current location of Orange Marine’s cable ship, the Leon Thévenin, which is attending to cable repairs off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Image: marinetraffic.com
Work was under way on Thursday to repair the Eassy submarine cable that was ... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | South African outage highlights high-stakes cloud risks | South Africans recently experienced sluggish internet speeds or breaks in connectivity as a result of multiple undersea cable breaks. While this was frustrating when people were trying to access their company networks, it became even more c... |
| Mar 17, 2024 | Nigeria: Undersea Cable Cut - Mainone Provides More Info, Says Service Restored to Some Customers | "The repair time is to enable our services to become fully restored and independently supply capacity to customers."
MainOne, a Digital Infrastructure Service Provider, on Saturday, said that it had restored service to some custom... |
| Mar 16, 2024 | West Africa: Full Internet Restoration in Nigeria, Others May Take a Month As Mainone Provides Details | The repair of the undersea cable cut that has affected internet services in Nigeria and many parts of sub-Saharan Africa may take about five weeks to be completed, MainOne said in a Friday statement.
MainOne, whose facilities provide intern... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Africa Internet Outage: Underwater Cable Failures Disrupt Communication System, Cutting Connection of Million Users | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 15 March 2024, 10:03 am
The continent of Africa, particularly the west and central parts, finds itself without online services following reported failures in several subsea cables.
It is expected that millions of us... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Multiple subsea cable breaks causing internet chaos in South Africa | Widespread problems were affecting the internet in South Africa on Thursday due to multiple undersea cable breaks.
“Multiple undersea cable failures between South Africa and Europe are currently impacting South Africa’s network providers, i... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | Seacom still needs repair permits for Red Sea cable break | A portion of the Red Sea near Djibouti, photographed from the International Space Station. Image: Nasa
Seacom on Friday said it is still awaiting the necessary permits to fix its broken cable system in the Red Sea.
Its repair partner, E-mar... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | Houthi-sunk ship likely snapped Red Sea internet cables | Seacom’s Prenesh Padayachee
The anchor of a cargo ship that was attacked by Houthi militants was the most likely cause of damage to three telecommunications cables in the Red Sea in late February, according to a subsea cable trade group tha... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Fears of Red Sea attack on internet cables | Seacom’s Prenesh Padayachee
A threat by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to destroy internet infrastructure traversing the Red Sea may not be enough to destabilise the internet across the region, experts have said.
The Guardian and oth... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Seacom CEO Oliver Fortuin to step down | Seacom CEO Oliver Fortuin
Seacom, which operates terrestrial and undersea fibre telecommunications infrastructure, said on Thursday that its CEO, Oliver Fortuin, is stepping down after two years in the role.
Fortuin, who is emigrating to “b... |
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