East Africa Optical Cable Project
This list was initially developed as part of AfTerFibre, a project to map terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa. The project was sponsored by and, on completion, will be hosted by the UbuntuNet Alliance. All information gathered by the project will be publicly available under an open license. The EASSy project is an initiative to construct and operate a submarine fibre-optic cable along the east coast of Africa to connect 20 coastal and land-locked countries to each other and to the rest of the world. In 2010, HTI (Hentorial Telecom International- Dublin, Ireland) set up by the chairman of WIOCC, John Sihra, led this optical fiber submarine cable system. Ethio telecom, Djibouti Telecom and Sudatel Group have signed a Tripartite Agreement under the Horizon Fiber Initiative, marking a.
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