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  EASSy - The Origin

    : East Africa Business Community Was the catalyst that kick-started the       process leading to the chain of events that put EASSy in place.

    : East African Business Summit of  November 2002 produced what came
      to be known as a “Business Manifesto”

      - A Submarine cable on the Eastern Africa Seaboard was one of the       “Action Plans” under the theme: “East Africa's future is digital."

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  Investing Through West Indian Ocean   Cable Company (WIOCC)

SPV incorporated in Mauritius
1.
   Botswana Telecommunications Corporation   (Part Investment)
Botswana
2.
   U - COM Burundi
Burundi
3.
   Onatel Burundi
Burundi
4.
   Djibouti Telecom
Djibouti
5.
   Telkom Kenya Limited
Kenya
6.
   TDM - Mozambique
Mozambique
7.
   Dalkom Somalia
Somalia
8.
   Zanzibar Telecom Limited
Tanzania
9.
   Uganda Telecom Limited
Uganda
10.
   Lesotho Telecommunications Authority
Lesotho
11.

  Gilat Satcom Nigeria Limited

Nigeria


 



Responsibility was assigned to operators in the region, to quote: “Operators who will initiate the project and form the lead consortium comprising Telkom Kenya, Tanzania Telecom Company Limited , Uganda Telecom, MTN International, Zanzibar Telecom Company (ZANTEL) - the leading telecom service providers, Nation Media Group and data operators”

Two months later in January 2003, Telkom Kenya Limited hosted the first meeting in Nairobi Kenya which kick started the project.

Two further meetings later, in January 2004 the first Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) meeting was held in Gaborone , Botswana .

EASSy is being developed by telecom operators in the region with international gateway licenses and other development partners referred to as Developmental Financial Institutions- DFI's. Some International carriers e.g. British Telecom , France Telecom e.t.c are also members o the consortium (REFER to list Below).

The following parties signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the development of the EASSy system and are Party to the EASSy Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) which became effective on 14 th March 2008 thus ending the MOU phase. The following is a list of EASSy investors.

 
  Party (Direct Investors)
  Country
1.
   Botswana Telecommunications   Corporation
  Botswana
2.
   Telecom Malagasy
  Madagascar
3.
   Mauritius Telecom
  Mauritius
4.
   Telkom South Africa / Vodacom   Consortium
  South Africa
5.
   MTN International
  South Africa
6.
   Sudan Telecom Limited
  Sudan
7.
   Tanzania Telecommunications Company   Limited
  Tanzania
8.
   Comores Telecom
  Comores Islands
9.
   Neotel (Pty) Ltd
  South Africa
10.
   Zambia Telecommunications Company   Limited
  Zambia
11.
   West Indian Ocean Cable Company   (WIOCC)
  SPV incorporated   Mauritius
12.
   Communications Global Networks   Services (BT)
  Non Regional   Operators
13.
   Saudi Telecom Company – Saudi Arabia
14.
   Bharti Airtel India – India
15.
   Etisalat (UAE) /Canartel Sudan   Consortium
16.
   France Telecom
 

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