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will SEACOM provide direct services like an ISP or will organizations and People willing to use the cable still subscribe to an ISP? In all what is the difference between SEACOM and an ISP? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.45.36.250 (talk • contribs)

From what I understood in their website,they will be like an "ISP for ISPs",not selling the connection directly to the end user,only for major companies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.24.22.6 (talk • contribs)

Map please[edit]

What it says --Anna Lincoln (talk) 09:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --R.Schuster (talk) 09:10, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1st sentence correction request[edit]

The initial sentence of this article has a verb tense mismatch that makes it nearly unreadable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 15.203.233.78 (talk) 16:52, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

buzzword bingo[edit]

In addition, as of June 2009, backhaul solutions allow onwards connectivity from the coastal landing points to: ...

Okay, what are "backhaul solutions"? —Tamfang (talk) 23:30, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See Backhaul (telecommunications) (link set). Best regards, --R.Schuster (talk) 09:10, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a reference to the link between the landing station (at beach) and the city were its used. Technically the entire cable is backhaul, but in that particular sentence it refers to the city-landing station link. HavocXphere (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:22, 28 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Current capacity[edit]

Added info regarding current capacity. Should the article clearly point out that <10% of the design capacity is lit or is that to much detail?HavocXphere (talk) 20:28, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Updates and major fixes to funding and lit capacity[edit]

Fixed the really inaccurate funding info -- Seacom, a $600,000 project? Yeesh! Also removed some random nonsense that came from a press release about Seacom "enabling HD video" blah blah. Redundant and misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.35.148.67 (talk) 07:44, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Apparent Bias[edit]

Don't think its deliberate, but the parts of the introduction sound like they come from a SEACOM press release, more like advertising than information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.50.10.126 (talk) 09:40, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]