SomaliNet Forums

Hargeisa (Somalilandpress)- This week somcable has completed most of their surveys covering total distance of 1200 Km in land. Covering Berbera to Las-anod border of punt land, Berbera to Tog-wajale border in Ethiopia, then Berbera to Lowya-Ado boder in Djibouti.

The construction of Berbera landing Station is also expected to be completed in mid January, as well as main Hargeisa Branch.

The network will serve as a backhaul to enable Somaliland to interconnect with Submarine Cable networks which are currently being deployed in the Red Sea.

This project is expected to contribute the national economy, as it’s expected to create Thousands of Jobs, during the construction, a part from the labor and the construction employment it will create a permanent technical trainings for the newly graduates from Somaliland Universities.

http://somalilandpress.com/somcable-has ... ject-19568

Doesn't this mean that Somcable have a monopoly over it? Why not split it between Somcable and some other companies?

That's a problem for the Somaliland chamber of commerce

i don't see any problems somcable will just provide the services to the communcation compnies like telesom & somtel ..etc

let us just wait and see what they will do.

so I dont get this optic fiber project thing,is it an exentention of sea ones? is it gonna be under ground cables or on tiir like electricity cable. and how is it gonna creat thousands of jobs exactly? how much money is being spent on it? etc..

What is the chance that in time to come SL will have their own independent route instead of dependence on the Djbouti connection?

Also

Has the option to divert the line intended for moqadishu through Berbera been totally rejected?

samadoon-waaxid wrote:so I dont get this optic fiber project thing,is it an exentention of sea ones? is it gonna be under ground cables or on tiir like electricity cable. and how is it gonna creat thousands of jobs exactly? how much money is being spent on it? etc..

It will be sea water to Berbera then I sincerely hope it will be underground from all way to towns. Otherwise locals will just destroy it.

Cirwaaq wrote: What is the chance that in time to come SL will have their own independent route instead of dependence on the Djbouti connection?

Also

Has the option to divert the line intended for moqadishu through Berbera been totally rejected?

It was going for Mog, but it has rejected due to war and piracy. It won't be economically viable for companies to lay cables to Mog because it's war zone at there and nobody's going to pay for it.

do you know of the seacom project, is somaliland linked to that ? the cable is literately few km from the coast and should be cheap to connect to it.