[Agencia de Informção de Moçambique] With the inauguration on Wednesday of a fibre-optic link to Lichinga, capital of the northernmost province of Niassa, the Mozambican state-owned telecommunications company, TDM, has completed the construction of its National Transmission Backbone.
Lichinga is now linked by fibre-optic cable to the other provincial capitals and has access to speedier and more efficient communication services.
According to TDM, installing the fibre-optic connections, using terrestrial and undersea cables, has cost about 58.2 million euros (77.3 million US dollars). TDM regards this as one of the largest and most important telecommunications undertakings in the history of independent Mozambique, which will integrate the country into the global information society.
Now that the fibre-optic network covers all the provincial capitals, the next phase is to set up alternative routes that guarantee the flow of traffic, if there is any cut or breakdown in the main network.
For this phase, TDM will implement, as from July, a project budgeted at 21 million euros, over a period of 26 months.
The inauguration of the Lichinga fibre-optic link was attended by the Minister of Transport and Communications, Paulo Zucula, Niassa provincial governor Arnaldo Bimbe, and TDM chairperson Joaquim de Carvalho.
Mozambique: Final Link in Fibre-Optic Network Inaugurated
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