Fiber Optic Displacement in Africa

The Africa Broadband Outlook 2024, published by the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) and Africa Analysis, reported that on a continent spanning 30 million square kilometers, Africa had 2,130,506 km of operational terrestrial fiber. Though tech giants have invested heavily in high-performance digital infrastructure — more cell towers, faster networks — Africans across the continent still grapple with sluggish internet speeds and expensive data. Tech companies such as Google and Facebook parent Meta are investing in new data. Workers haul part of a fibre optic cable onto the shore at the Kenyan port town of Mombasa. While submarine communications cables are used to connect countries and ...

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