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Once a Cape Town startup

WorldCom`s woes have had very little impact on wholly owned subsidiary UUNet, and the local operation is looking at 30 to 40 percent growth in Internet operations – to which African operations will contribute a great deal.

01 May 2003

UUNet in South Africa is ten years old this year. It might not seem that old but then it has changed names more often than the singer formerly known as Prince. It wasn`t always an international company either.

When UUNet of the US bought the operations of Pipex, Pipex Internet Africa became UUNet Internet Africa, of which Datatec still held 76 percent.

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