- Source: List of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa
This is a list of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa. While submarine communications cables are used to connect countries and continents to the Internet, terrestrial fibre optic cables are used to extend this connectivity to landlocked countries or to urban centers within a country that has submarine cable access. In most of the world, a large number of such cables exist, often amounting to robust Internet backbones. The lack of such high-speed cables poses a great problem for most African countries. The construction of both submarine cables and their terrestrial extensions is thus considered an important step to economic growth and development to many African countries.
Countries
= Algeria
== Angola
== Benin
== Botswana
== Burkina Faso
== Burundi
== Cameroon
== Chad
== Cote d'Ivoire
== Democratic Republic of Congo
== Djibouti
== Egypt
== eSwatini
== Ethiopia
== Gambia
== Ghana
== Guinea
== Kenya
== Liberia
== Madagascar
== Malawi
== Mali
== Mauritania
== Morocco
== Mozambique
== Namibia
== Niger
== Nigeria
== Rwanda
== Senegal
== Somalia
== South Africa
== South Sudan
== Sudan
== Tanzania
== Togo
== Uganda
== Zambia
== Zimbabwe
=Notes
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 Google Africa and, on completion, will be hosted by the UbuntuNet Alliance. All information gathered by the project will be publicly available under an open license.
See also
List of international submarine communications cables
Central African Backbone
Kenya Data Networks
Telecommunications in Namibia
Internet in Ethiopia
People's Republic of China – Ghana relations
References
External links
AfTerFibre Google Group
AfTerFibre Map
Greg's Cable Map
African Undersea Cables
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa
- Telecommunications in Togo
- Terrestrial cable
- Telecommunications in Cameroon
- Telecommunications in Ivory Coast
- Internet in Africa
- Telecommunications in Gabon
- Telecommunications in Equatorial Guinea
- Telecommunications in the Republic of the Congo
- Telecommunications in Namibia
