Latin America to get $200m broadband boost

Following Angola Cables' injection of $200-million to build a submarine cable from Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, to Brazil, the Antonio Nunes-led company would now invest a further $100-million in a new undersea cable connecting Latin America to the US. The group, as part of a consortium, was building the South Atlantic Cable System, a 6 000 km four-fibre, 40 Tb/s cable linking Angola to Brazil, which was expected to be fully operational by the end of 2015.