African Cables & Wire supply a comprehensive range of indoor and outdoor telephone cables.

Indoor telephone cables are designed to interconnect telephones to PABXs or to interconnect switching equipment to underground cable via a main distribution frame (MDF).

This category comprises PVC sheathed wire and cable for use in buildings and equipment, which include such types as equipment wires, cross-connecting wires and switchboard cables.These cables can also incorporate screens such as copper braids, lap wire and aluminium polyester tapes.

• Equipment / cross-connecting wires
  
  

  Conductors	Plain solid copper wire (e.g. 0.5 mm diameter)
  Insulation	PVC

  
  
• Switchboard cables
  
  

  Conductors	Plain solid copper wire (e.g. 0.5 mm diameter)
  Insulation	PVC
  Construction	Unit or concentric
  Sheath	PVC or LSZH

Outdoor telephone cables are used to connect and interconnect subscribers' MDFs with main exchanges. They also provide for main exchange-to-exchange connections (trunk and junction cables). Types of outdoor telephone cable, sheathed in PE or PVC are made to a variety of international specifications. These include screened types, and screened and armoured types where protection is required for cables buried underground.