[ft] East Africa will on Friday move closer to ending its isolation as the world’s last region not connected to the global broadband network when a fibre optic undersea cable “lands” at the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
The region at present relies on satellite internet links that are slow, unreliable and often prohibitively expensive, problems that have inhibited business activity, public sector efficiency and the spread of internet access.
The connection of two undersea cables to Kenya’s domestic fibre network promises to deliver the kind of infrastructural transformation rarely seen in Africa, a continent infamous for bad roads, ports and power supplies.
At a “landing” ceremony in Mombasa on Friday, Mwai Kibaki, the president, is due to mark the arrival of the $110m Teams submarine cable, which is part-owned by Kenya’s government and Kenyan telecoms companies, including affiliates of Vodafone and France Telecom.
Broadband ‘lands’ in east Africa
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