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Shayan Sanyal, chief commercial officer, Bluwan, and Michael Cothill, CEO of Somaliland operator Somcable, talk to telecoms.com at AfricaCom 2012 about delivering ‘fibre-like’ access services to difficult environments at one tenth of the cost of GPON.
In this case Somcable already has connectivity to high bandwidth subsea cables but faced a problem in getting that bandwidth to the end user before settling on fibre-through-the-air.














With summer supposedly fast approaching, many look to trim some fat and get in shape for the sunny months. The Informer has never been a huge fan of gyms; in fact his favourite machine in the gym is the one that sells chocolate. Telefonica’s UK arm O2, is one business that is looking to get lean for the holidays, though, and this week it announced that it is to trim 3,500 UK employees.