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The fiber-optic cable will mean a dramatic reduction in cost for BOL, which is a client of Seacom.

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Reorientation is certainly needed: it wasn't until this year that Bertelsmann parried Amazon's thrust into online bookselling in Europe, via a rival product called BOL -- which Therese Torris, director of European Internet commerce at Forrester Research in Amsterdam, pronounces "late and tepid."

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The compound, called BOL-148, was developed and tested in people in the 1950s and '60s for a very different purpose.

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With the Seacom cable, it expects to pay just $15,000 a month for 150 MBps -- though BOL doesn't yet know how much government fees will affect costs.

Broadband In Tanzania Opens East Africa To Outsourcing Possibilities 2010

After investing some of the savings into expanding its network, BOL hopes that the cable will bring a 90 percent price reduction for consumers.

Broadband In Tanzania Opens East Africa To Outsourcing Possibilities 2010

Businesses signing up for a connection of one-megabyte-per-second (MBps) with BensonOnline (BOL), a Tanzanian ISP that offers unlimited data transfer, pay $4,800 a month.

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"If you divide this between 20 users, you probably get 8 to 12 kilobytes fluctuating," said David Adila, who works in customer support at BOL on the 16th floor of the PPF building in Dar es Salaam.

Broadband In Tanzania Opens East Africa To Outsourcing Possibilities 2010

Even "normal" BOL subscribers -- who get 256 kilobyte-per-second connections -- pay $1,500 per month for their subscriptions.

Broadband In Tanzania Opens East Africa To Outsourcing Possibilities 2010

BOL currently pays about $60,000 a month for the 20 MBps it rents from a satellite connection, which it then repackages and sells to consumers.

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