slash-sa's Journal: 2010 Soccer World Cup Bandwidth Concerns

The 2010 Soccer World Cup will need a great deal of bandwidth, something that South Africa does not current have. Many projects like EASSy and Seacom are being planned, but it is not progressing at a pace which all countries are happy with. Kenya for example has subsequently asked for private funding for their own project.

Despite recent upgrades to the existing SAT3/SAFE cable systems to 120 Gbps and 90 Gbps respectively - there are still concerns about whether enough international bandwidth will be available to South Africa to serve the 2010 World Cup bandwidth needs. South Africas Telkom is however planning their own cable called SAT 4 for additional bandwidth.