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sat 3 wasc wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history 2 landing points 3 bandwidth costs 4 technology 5 see also 6 references 7 external links toggle the table of contents sat 3 wasc 2 languages afrikaans français edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia submarine communications cable south atlantic 3 west africa submarine cable sat 3 wasc owners telkom group 13 france telecom 12 08 nitel 8 39 at t 12 42 and vsnl 8 93 landing points chipiona spain altavista gran canaria spain sesimbra portugal dakar senegal abidjan côte d ivoire accra ghana cotonou benin lagos nigeria douala cameroon libreville gabon cacuaco angola melkbosstrand south africa total length 13000 km topology trunk and branch design capacity 340 gbit s technology fibre optic date of first use 2001 sat 3 wasc or south atlantic 3 west africa submarine cable is a submarine communications cable linking portugal and spain to south africa with connections to several west african countries along the route it forms part of the sat 3 wasc safe cable system where the safe cable links south africa to asia the sat 3 wasc safe system provides a path between asia and europe for telecommunications traffic that is an alternative to the cable routes that pass through the middle east such as sea me we 3 and flag sat 3 has a capacity of 340 gbit s while safe has a capacity of 440 gbit s the sat 3 system together with safe was built by a consortium of operators 1 history edit sat 3 wasc safe began operations in 2001 providing the first links to europe for west african internet users and for south africans taking up service from sat 2 which was reaching maximum capacity sat 2 had been brought into service in the early 1990s as a replacement for the original undersea cable sat 1 which was constructed in the 1960s citation needed in november 2007 no internet access was available through sat 3 for about seven days in parts of central africa a government official from cameroon blamed a technical failure at the underwater sat 3 high sea fibre optic terminal about forty kilometres from douala 2 many isps in cameroon had transitioned their connections from independent satellite connections to sat 3 in mid 2007 creating serious communication difficulties during the seven days in late july 2009 sat 3 cable damage caused internet blackouts in multiple west african countries including benin togo niger and nigeria togo and niger were completely offline and benin was able to reroute its net traffic through neighboring countries 3 however the three nations were able to use alternative satellite links in order to maintain some internet communication with the rest of the world 4 nigeria suffered a 70 loss of bandwidth that caused problems in banking government and other mobile networks president of the nigeria internet group lanre ajayi said the cable is a critical national resource because of its importance to the economy and to security 5 two weeks may pass before the cable is fixed 6 nigeria portion of sat3 cable was damaged in march 2016 7 on june 9 2017 the link between pointe noire in the republic of the congo to the international cable was cut off by a fishing vessel forcing network providers to provide internet using v sat 8 the cable was restored after 15 days 9 gabon congo drc and cameroon experienced internet disruption due to the rupture of the cable on 17 january 2020 off the coast of gabon 10 it was fixed on january 27 11 on 6 august 2023 the cable system snapped simultaneously with the wacs cable system after a rock fall in the congo canyon 12 13 internet speeds in sub saharan africa were impacted despite new cable systems such as google owned equiano recently landing in the country 14 15 16 landing points edit sesimbra portugal chipiona spain though this landing is considered to be part of the telefónica domestic network alta vista in las palmas canary islands and in africa dakar senegal abidjan côte d ivoire accra ghana cotonou benin lagos lagos nigeria douala cameroon libreville gabon cacuaco angola melkbosstrand south africa meeting safe although telecom namibia holds ownership in sat 3 wasc namibia has no landing point namibian internet users currently have no access to sat 3 wasc because telecom namibia would have to purchase capacity from telkom sa and due to telkom sa s high prices has so far refused to do so bandwidth costs edit prices for sat 3 bandwidth in the african countries it serves are high us 4 500 12 000 per mbit s per month over 50 times greater than bandwidth prices in the u s 17 in large part because operators have monopoly control of access 17 the lowest rates occur in ghana where the ghana internet service providers association gispa organized a two year negotiation through a court fight against ghana telecom 17 seacom president brian herlihy states that the owners of the sat 3 cable have cut prices by 50 since the 2007 announcement of seacom in order to compete with the arrival of seacom in east africa 18 technology edit the cable itself consists of four fibers using erbium doped fiber amplifier repeaters and wavelength division multiplexing see also edit list of international submarine communications cables individual cable systems off the coast of africa include atlantis 2 argentina linked to portugal eassy east africa cable linking south africa and east african nations lion main one portugal linked to west africa sat 2 portugal linked to south africa seacom east coast of africa glo 1 nigeria to the uk ace south africa linked to france wacs south africa linked to the united kingdom references edit southwood russell february 7 2006 icasa enquiry into telkom s sat 3 monopoly awaits government response my adsl internet access off in cameroon for 7th day retrieved november 7 2007 scott peter 2009 07 30 nigerian 419ers now 404ers fudzilla archived from the original on august 2 2009 retrieved 2009 07 30 bbc news technology cable fault cuts off west africa bbc news july 30 2009 retrieved july 30 2009 internet disrupted in west africa al jazeera 2009 07 30 retrieved 2009 07 30 cable fault cuts off west africa bbc news july 30 2009 oluwagbemi ayodele 2016 03 29 ntel repairs sat 3 submarine cable the punch retrieved 2023 08 08 africanews 2017 06 14 congo brazzaville facing major internet outage submarine cables damaged africanews retrieved 2023 08 08 africanews 2017 06 27 internet connection restored in congo brazzaville after 15 days africanews retrieved 2023 08 08 andzongo sylvain wacs and sat3 gabon congo drc and cameroon experience internet disruption due to an incident on the cameroonian landing point business in cameroon retrieved 2023 08 08 brm cameroon reconnects to wacs and sat3 submarine cables business in cameroon retrieved 2023 08 08 twin cable breaks impacting sa internet techcentral 2023 08 07 retrieved 2023 08 10 bad news about break in undersea cables 8 august 2023 malinga sibahle 2023 08 08 sa fibre operators hit by dual submarine cable break itweb retrieved 2023 08 10 mybroadband internet cable break 10 august 2023 damaged west african and south atlantic 3 undersea cables could take months to fix 2023 08 08 retrieved 2023 08 10 1 2 3 osiakwan eric 2008 the case for open access communications infrastructure in africa the sat 3 wasc cable ghana case study pdf association for progressive communications archived from the original pdf on june 19 2017 retrieved 18 march 2016 van der merwe christy july 19 2009 seacom to boost capacity but prices won t drop overnight engineering news external links edit official sat 3 wasc safe homepage the sat3 fibre a monopoly that stands in the way of cheaper international bandwidth what must happen when sat3 s monopoly comes to an end cipaco v t e submarine communications cables in the atlantic ocean operational or future 2africa ac 2 aeconnect africa coast to europe alba 1 amx 1 antillas i arcos 1 arimao americas ii apollo atlantic crossing 1 atlantis 2 bdsni brics cable c lion1 circe columbus ii columbus iii concerto 1 danice dunant ecfs ellalink farice 1 glo 1 globenet grace hopper greenland connect hugo hibernia express marea maya 1 main one monet norsea com 1 pan am pec pacific caribbean cable system sacs sail sat 3 wasc saex sam 1 shefa 2 smpr 1 southern caribbean fiber svalbard undersea cable system tangerine ulysses unisur vsnl northern europe vsnl western europe west africa cable system legacy or abandoned cantat 1 cantat 2 cantat 3 odin pangea rembrandt 1 rembrandt 2 rioja 1 rioja 2 rioja 3 sat 2 sea me we 3 tcs 1 uk belgium 5 wasace retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title sat 3 wasc oldid 1344702256 categories submarine communications cables in the north atlantic ocean submarine communications cables in the south atlantic ocean internet in africa 2001 establishments in africa 2001 establishments in europe hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata all articles with unsourced statements articles with unsourced statements from july 2009 this page was last edited on 22 march 2026 at 01 50 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered 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