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MTN在南非铺设海底电缆，以促进非洲的互联互通
非洲大型经济体的互联网用户数量快速增长，快速扩张的移动宽带网络和价格低廉的智能手机推动了这一增长。
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BSNL视人力资源转型为转折点
在2022年至2032年的10年期间，平均每年将有近2000名员工退休，这使该公司成为一个更专注于与私营行业企业——Reliance Jio、Bharti Airtel和Vodafone Idea——竞争的组织。
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非洲各大经济体的人口都在快速增长互联网用户，快速扩张推动了增长移动宽带网络还有价格实惠的智能手机。
但非洲大陆在互联网方面仍落后于世界其他地区连接．
该海底电缆项目名为“2Africa”，将于2023年投入使用，旨在建设海底电缆基础设施，将非洲沿海国家直接连接到欧洲和中东。
MTN子公司MTN GlobalConnect表示，该海底电缆系统将在南非西开普省的Yzerfontein和Duynefontein着陆，一旦在2023年和2024年完成，该海底电缆系统将分别支持非洲的西部和东部。
海底电缆是互联网的骨干，承载着全球99%的数据流量。
该财团包括MTN GlobalConnect、中国移动国际、元、法国电信公司Orange SA、埃及电信公司，沃达丰(Vodafone)总部位于毛里求斯的基础设施提供商WIOCC和沙特阿拉伯的中心3。
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<\/figure>JOHANNESBURG: MTN<\/a> South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect<\/a>, in partnership with a consortium, have landed a 45,000 kilometre subsea cable in South Africa, part of plans to build a subsea network to connect African countries to Europe and the Middle East.Africa's big economies have a fast growing population of internet<\/a> users, with growth fuelled by rapidly expanding mobile broadband networks<\/a> and affordable smartphones.
But the continent still lags behind the rest of the world in internet connectivity<\/a>.
<\/div><\/div>\"Data traffic across African markets is expected to grow between four and five fold over the next 5 years, so we need infrastructure and capacity to meet that level of growth and demand,\" MTN Group Chief Executive Ralph Mupita said in a statement.
The subsea cable project, called 2Africa which will go live in 2023, aims to build subsea cable infrastructure which will directly connect countries around the African coast to Europe and the Middle East.
MTN subsidiary MTN GlobalConnect said the landing for the cable was in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, in the Western Cape province of South Africa and the subsea cable system will support the western and eastern sides of Africa once complete in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
Subsea cables are the backbone of the internet, carrying 99% of the world's data traffic.
The consortium includes MTN GlobalConnect, China Mobile International, Meta<\/a>, French telecoms company Orange SA, Telecom Egypt<\/a>, Vodafone<\/a>, Mauritius-based infrastructure provider WIOCC and Saudi Arabia's center3.
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The subsea cable project, called 2Africa which will go live in 2023, aims to build subsea cable infrastructure which will directly connect countries around the African coast to Europe and the Middle East.
MTN subsidiary MTN GlobalConnect said the landing for the cable was in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, in the Western Cape province of South Africa and the subsea cable system will support the western and eastern sides of Africa once complete in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
Subsea cables are the backbone of the internet, carrying 99% of the world's data traffic.
The consortium includes MTN GlobalConnect, China Mobile International, Meta<\/a>, French telecoms company Orange SA, Telecom Egypt<\/a>, Vodafone<\/a>, Mauritius-based infrastructure provider WIOCC and Saudi Arabia's center3.
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bourse","artsyn":"The telecom operator, a unit of South Africa's MTN Group, launched its IPO offering in October aiming to sell a 20% stake, pricing the 4.5 billion shares on sale at 200 shillings each.","seolocation":"telecomnews\/mtn-uganda-shares-jump-3-after-listing-on-ugandan-bourse","seolocationalt":"MTN Uganda shares jump 3% after listing on Ugandan bourse","url_seo":"mtn-uganda-shares-jump-3-after-listing-on-ugandan-bourse"},"88041028":{"msid":"88041028","stname":"MTN Nigeria shares shed 10% after IPO pricing","artsyn":"South African telecoms group MTN opened its offer for sale to retail investors on Wednesday at 169 naira per share to sell up to 575 million shares in MTN Nigeria.","seolocation":"telecomnews\/mtn-nigeria-shares-shed-10-after-ipo-pricing","seolocationalt":"MTN Nigeria shares shed 10% after IPO pricing","url_seo":"mtn-nigeria-shares-shed-10-after-ipo-pricing"}}}}" 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