History
Five companies — Alcatel-Lucent, Tyco Telecommunication, Fujitsu Corporation, NEC Corporation and Huawei Technologies — had placed their bids for the building of the TEAMs undersea cable.
On October 11, 2007, Alcatel-Lucent were awarded the $82 million contract to lay the cable. Construction began in January 2008 on the Emirates' side.
On 12 June 2009 the cable arrived in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and was launched by the President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki, the Prime Minister of Kenya Raila Odinga and other dignitaries.
On 25 February 2012 the TEAMS cable was accidentally cut by a ship anchored off the coast of Mombasa. The repairs were expected to take about 3 weeks. Some ISPs, automatically including those multi-homed were able to re-route traffic through the SEACOM cable system or other global connections, but more than half of the networks in Kenya and Uganda were affected. The impact of the break was made worse because TEAMS was itself carrying re-routed EASSy traffic after three cables experienced breaks in the Red Sea on February 17 - Europe India Gateway, SEA-ME-WE 3, and the EASSy.
On 27 April 2012 the TEAMS cable was accidentally cut again only 35 days after it was fixed from the previous break.
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