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Friday, January 23, 2009 - 02:00
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Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
416 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The Tata-led Neotel consortium and mobile phone giant MTN South Africa have signed an agreement to jointly build a 2 billion rand ($202 million) 5,000-km optical fibre network that will connect all major centres across this country.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/53490 [5]
Country: 
South Africa [6]

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