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The construction of SEACOM’s 15,000 km fibre optic undersea cable, linking southern and east Africa, Europe and south Asia, is on schedule and set to go live as planned in June 2009. Some 10,000 km of cable has been manufactured to date at locations in the USA and Japan and Tyco Communications, the project contractors, will begin shipping terrestrial equipment this month with the cable expected…