The End of a Dubious Distinction?

Business Daily Africa - Kenya wins new backers in war over optic cable: "Upon completion next year, the $80 million optic cable is expected to connect East Africa to the rest of the world, bringing to an end the dubious distinction it has had as the only region with no link to the global optic fibre network."

Well, it's about time.... The article shows an interesting dynamic between South Africa and Kenya, feuding over the terms of how to distribute bandwidth. South Africa favors an agreement that seems to bolster its own Telkom, which brings worries of having South Africa serve as the local bully.

Kenya has the World Bank, NEPAD, and, now, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda on its side.

Does that mean that the South African project EASSy will co-exist with Kenya's TEAMs project? Will countries be members of both or be forced to choose between. Can the TEAMs Project eventually expand out to the same 33 countries that originally signed on to the EASSy project? I'm not sure.

But the more competition, the better!