Somalia Internet Restored Temporarily, As Ministry Asks Operators to Be More Vigilant By Horn Observer July 27, 2020 (Mogadishu – July 27, 2020) Internet service has temporarily been restored to South and Central Somalia after Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) remotely switched on the branching unit by re-configuring the power set-up temporarily as Sudan [...]
Djibouti Telecom, Somtel and SubCom Announce Completion of DARE1 Marine Survey and Addition of Bosaso Landing Station SubCom Press Release March 27, 2019 Cable system with landing points in Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya will bring increased capacity and connectivity to East Africa DJIBOUTI CITY, DJIBOUTI, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA and EATONTOWN, NJ, USA – Djibouti Telecom, Somtel [...]
By Paul Adepoju, ITWeb Africa August 24, 2017 The governments of Djibouti and Somalia have reached an agreement on capacity sharing of the submarine optic fibre cable, the Djibouti African Regional Express. The agreement was reached at the end of a four-day working visit to Djibouti by Somalia's telecommunications minister Abdi Ashur Hassan. Hassan and [...]
By Chris Burt, The Web Host Industry Review July 11, 2o17 An extended internet outage in Somalia is being called a “major disaster” to the war-torn country’s economy. The outage across the country’s south, including the capital Mogadishu, was caused by damage to an undersea fiber-optic cable two weeks ago, and is costing $10 million [...]