Zim needs US$123m for fibre cables
ZIMBABWE requires US$123 million to invest in optic fibre to extend the backbone network to reach and serve every district in the country.
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While are used to connect countries and continents to the, 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 The Zimbabwe fixed-line operator TelOne recently announced that it has completed the construction of the optical cable from Makuti to Chirundu (the junction with Zambia), with a total length of approximately 65 kilometers. About 200,000 km (120,000 mi) of fiber optic cables had been deployed as of December 31, 2021. In 2018, Mascom announced they would be laying Botswana's "first fibre-to-the-home service. GOVERNMENT has, in the past seven years, built an additional 10 152km of long-haul fibre optic backbone across the country, to improve service delivery in critical areas of health, education and agriculture, buttressing the Second Republic's commitment to ensuring that Zimbabwe has superior. The objective was to have an optic fibre cable length of about 12 000km, with a total of 10 152km having been laid to date. The Fiber Optics market in Zimbabwe is projected to grow at a stable growth rate of 2. 40% by 2027, highlighting the country's increasing focus on advanced technologies within the Africa region, where Egypt holds the dominant position, followed closely by South Africa, Ethiopia, Algeria and Nigeria. Designed specifically for non-metallic ADSS installations on power transmission lines, our fibre optic cable ensures seamless data transmission over long distances.
