When four major submarine fibre cables went offline off the West coast of Africa in March 2024, we were all reminded how dependent we had become on relatively fragile Internet infrastructure.
Infrastructure and network service providers like the West Indian Ocean Cable Company leapt into action immediately.Capacity was also available on the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System along the East coast of the continent. or on a collective , South Africa missed an opportunity by not awarding National Order status to ‘the IT engineer’ as a group,” Oberholzer said.
“Many of us in increasingly noticed friends and relatives in the ICT sector excusing themselves from social events to attend to yet another after hours, Eskom-created communications emergency,” Oberholzer said.