Kenya and Tanzania Launch Cross-Border Fibre Link to Boost East Africa's Digital Integration

Kenya and Tanzania contiguous celebrated a important milestone successful determination integer integration with the authoritative motorboat of the Dar-es-Salaam to Mombasa Terrestrial Fibre Link astatine the Lunga Lunga/Horohoro border. This captious infrastructure straight connects Kenya’s National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) to Tanzania’s nationalist fibre network, poised to substantially heighten determination connectivity and practice crossed East Africa.

The inaugural is simply a associated effort betwixt the ICT Authority  of Kenya and Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTCL),  coordinated by the respective ICT Ministries of some nations. The task underscores a shared imaginativeness for a digitally interconnected East Africa, aiming to beforehand affordable net access, foster integer trade, and thrust inclusive economical maturation passim the region.

ICT Authority Ag. CEO Zilpher Owiti announced the palmy deployment of 130 kilometers of high-capacity fibre betwixt Mombasa and Horohoro, efficaciously linking Kenya’s halfway fibre infrastructure to the Tanzanian border. Owiti highlighted Kenya’s connection of discounted fibre leasing rates to Tanzania, a strategical determination intended to little net costs and span the integer divide, peculiarly successful agrarian and underserved communities. She emphasized the project’s alignment with Kenya’s Digital Transformation Agenda and the broader African Union’s Agenda 2063.

Eng. John Kipchumba Tanui, MBS, CBS, Principal Secretary for ICT and Digital Economy, underscored the immense imaginable this caller infrastructure holds for startups, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and the youth. He stressed that the enhanced connectivity would unlock caller avenues for cross-border collaboration, integer entrepreneurship, and the export of integer services regionally and globally.

Hon. William Kabogo, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communications and The Digital Economy, described the task arsenic a foundational measurement towards establishing a “One Network Area” and achieving a digitally sovereign Africa. He further emphasized its worth successful streamlining customs processes, improving logistics, and enabling tiny traders to entree burgeoning integer marketplaces.

The motorboat lawsuit was graced by a distinguished delegation of leaders and elder authorities representatives from some countries, including Hon. Jerry Silaa (Mb.), Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Tanzania; Eng. Leo Magomba, for PS MCIT, Tanzania; Hon. Lily Ng’ok, ICT Authority Chairperson, Kenya; Moremi Andrea Marwa, Director General – TTCL, Tanzania; and Ambassador Dr. Batilda Burian, Regional Commissioner, TANGA Tanzania.