As older undersea cables in Mombasa and Dar es Salaam approach their commercial end-of-life window, pauses and outages keep occurring. Uganda telecoms are increasingly seeking new routes to deliver the Internet from Mombasa into the hinterland.
On Tuesday, MTN Uganda announced that Kampala was finally linked to a new 1,000km terrestrial fibre optic cable network from Mombasa to Malaba, Kenya, which was constructed by Bayobab Kenya.
