Web Design East Africa » east africa http://www.webdesigneastafrica.com Bridging the gap between new and old Africa Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:30:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Broadband on East African shores http://www.webdesigneastafrica.com/44/infrastructure/broadband-on-east-african-shores/ http://www.webdesigneastafrica.com/44/infrastructure/broadband-on-east-african-shores/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:57:58 +0000 webdea http://www.webdesigneastafrica.com/?p=44 Broadband in East Africa has reached one of the many bottlenecks to pass through on its way to become an every-man´s communication tool. One of the most important bottlenecks to deal with first is the non-existent fiber optic network between cities and rural areas of all East African nations.

You have the SEACOM cable on the shores but now what? True that many big cities probably soon will benefit from this, but who is going to pay if only a small percentage of the countries people get access to broadband? Thus, the roll-out of East Africa´s fibre network is of great importance.

The East African Fibre Summit that is being held in Nairobi 22-23 September 2009 will address these issues among other things. Among the speakers is a Swede, Anders Comstedt, who has a previous career as CEO for companies in the fibre network roll-out business in Sweden. See also: “Submarine cables on the beach now what?“

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