Kigali to become Africa’s first ‘wireless’ city in $7.7m deal

“The completion of this project brings us to a very important step — we are now set to roll out a 2,300-kilometre national backbone connecting the entire country. This will subsequently prepare us to link internationally to more affordable and higher capacity submarine cables at the East African coast,” he added.

The national backbone is expected to link 36 main points in Rwanda’s 30 districts.

The government is targeting gain access to high speed Internet for more than 4 million Rwandans within the next two to three years, partly facilitated by the WiBro project.

The country recently benefited from a $24 million World Bank loan facility to establish its capacity to provide broadband connectivity and access to low-cost international connectivity.

Korea Telecom is a prominent South Korean integrated wired and wireless telecommunication service provider.

It has developed an information and communications business for the past 25 years.

The company also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Algerian government this month to build an Internet network for government offices.

It also clinched a $29 million project to install a broadband wireless network in Sidi Abdela, west of Algiers.