Globecomm
Systems Inc. announced that it will be developing a new broadband
wireless infrastructure for Somaliland-based Somcable Limited. The
contract is worth $2.7 million.
Somcable
aims to create the framework for a carrier class communications
service provider in the autonomous region (or sovereign state if you
ask them) of Somaliland. It entered a contract with Globecomm for the
design, engineering, and provision of a broadband wireless
infrastructure that can deliver fiber speeds.
Globecomm
will install high speed wireless technology to facilitate the
delivery of scalable bandwidth to Somaliland citizens. The company
expects to complete these contracts by the end of the third quarter
of 2013.
Somcable
will use that infrastructure to deliver voice, Internet, TV, and
video communication services to its subscribers at minimal entry
level cost. Globecomm's design will leave enough leeway to expand
Somcable's wireless network in the future.
According to Michael
Cothill, Chief Executive of Somcable, a state-of-the-art broadband wireless infrastructure will uplift Somaliland's profile will uplift its
profile, allowing the region to participate in world-class multimedia
communications.
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