Rwanda ambitious $40 million broadband project under way
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Rwanda’s after-war rebuilding projects are changing the daily life of citizens and connecting them more and more to the globalized world. The most telling example for that is the government ambitious $40 million project launched last year in partnership with Korea Telecom to provide the country with the state-of-the-art high speed broadband technologies.
The second step of the broadband project is about a fiber-optic deployment throughout the country that will require a $22 million investment and is expected to provide affordable high speed broadband Internet by the end of this year. Besides, the government also awarded the Korean company another related project to lay the fibre-optic cable that will connect the country to the undersea cable and also provide technology, equipment, relevant application materials.
If completed this mega project of broadband in Rwanda will enable the country to lift up its broadband penetration rate to one of the highest on the African stage as it will increase broadband availability to more than 700 Rwandan institutions including schools, health-care centres and local government administrative centres.