Optical & Fixed Networks

Angola's Savings and Credits Bank (BPC) is set to provide US$70 million for a new fibre-optic cable network which will connect Angola's coastal provinces...

Extending the existing copper products in its Heliax family, Andrew Corporation has introduced a selection of corrugated aluminium-cable products designed to be a cost-effective, high-quality extension to its copper corrugated transmission-line systems...

Global wireless solutions group Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) is promoting what is believed to be the world's first corrugated aluminium transmission line and the lightest RF transmission cable currently on the market.

Following on almost immediately from our report about the financing of the East African Submarine Cable project (EASSy), Developing Telecoms can report that Alcatel of France has won the EASSy contract par excellence...

Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key sources of finance have indicated that they will support this project...

New jumper cable caps from Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) are claimed to offer improved RF connection between main feeders and antennas or system equipment...

Algeria' s rising demand for telephony has created a new opportunity for the country's major mobile operator. Orascom Telecom has teamed up with its fellow Egyptian company Telecom Egypt to set up Consortium Algerien de Telecommunication and run Algeria' s second fixed-line system.