{"id":491,"date":"2007-07-03T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-03T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T11:55:00","slug":"kenya-seeks-private-funding-for-undersea-telecom-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/491-kenya-seeks-private-funding-for-undersea-telecom-link.html","title":{"rendered":"Kenya seeks private funding for undersea telecom link"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenya on Monday invited telecom operators to invest six billion shillings ($90 million) to build an undersea fibre optic cable to boost African telecommunications links with the rest of the world. <\/font><\/p>\n

The state Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) said it had been allocated one billion shillings ($15 million) by the government, but was short of six billion to lay the The East African Marine Systems (TEAMS). <\/font><\/p>\n

"While the TEAMS project is a government initiative, its ownership, implementation and management shall be on a private-public sector partnership arrangement," CCK said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n

"The government intends to give priority to licenced operators in the East African Community who may be interested in participating in the project," it added. <\/font><\/p>\n

The cable, in which United Arab Emirates firm Etisalat is to hold stake, will link the Kenyan port city of Mombasa with Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman. <\/font><\/p>\n

Once completed, the link is expected to dramatically reduce the cost of cost of international calls and internet access in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. <\/font><\/p>\n

African countries spend about $400 million a year to route voice and data traffic from Africa back to Africa through Europe and North America, where such services are a fraction of the cost. <\/font><\/p>\n

Kenya has been keen to create communications links to market itself as a centre for business outsourcing, like India.<\/font><\/p>\n

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