Mauritian Firm Completes Fibre-Optic Link Along Africa’s Longest Lake
- The project spans 400 kilometers, depth reaches 1,300 meters
- Submarine cable expected to serve more than 10 million people
A Mauritian telecommunications infrastructure provider has completed the first submarine cable project on Lake Tanganyika, helping to improve broadband connectivity to the vast South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The link is the deepest inland undersea fiber-optic cable in the world, according to Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group, which developed the $10 million project in collaboration with Airtel DRC.