Globacom has promised to bring economic prosperity to Africa with its Glo 1 submarine cable project. The laying of the cables is to make efficient broadband Internet services available in West Africa. A Nigerian publication, ThisDay newspaper, has quoted Globacom Group Executive Director (GED), Paddy Adenuga as saying, “Globacom will stimulate a new era of prosperity in the continent by offering cheap, fast and reliable international calls, unprecedented fast access to the internet and revolutionary data transfer”. He added that the cumulative effect of the huge bandwidth and cheaper rates Glo 1 would bring to the continent “will empower Africans in the field of communications, education, agriculture, banking and health”. Globacom is undertaking a major project of laying fibre optic cables all the way from Europe through West Africa to enhance broadband Internet connectivity. The cable landed in Nigeria over the weekend. The Glo 1 submarine cable connects over 16 countries to the rest of the world. The cable has a current capacity of 640 gigabit per second and an ultimate capacity of 2.5 terabit per second. The company has already begun laying the cables in Ghana. The sixth mobile telephony to be licensed by the country’s National Communications Authority (NCA), Globacom Ghana is yet to start operations doing what an official has described as “playing the waiting game.” Globacom has embarked on a series of branding activities including introducing its brand ambassadors at a ceremony in Accra recently. Source:GhanaBusinessnews.com