Liquid Telecom, Chief Executive Officer Mr Nic Rudnick made the remarks in Dar es Salaam yesterday during the Annual conference that constituted all large cable operators across the continent who met to share experience on new technologies in the fibre network connectivity.

 

“Formerly we brought connectivity capacities to Zambia and Zimbabwe from South Africa but for the first time we are bringing it from Tanzania. This is the great achievement and offers great potential for Tanzania to capitalise,” he said.

 

“We are ready providing redundancy to Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Zambia through Tanzania. And we would like to do a lot more. The landing stations are here in Tanzania and are real uniquely to be hub for east, central and southern Africa,” He said in Tanzania, Pan-African telecommunications operator, Liquid Telecom has started to connect enterprises particularly those which have services across the East African region into one single network.

 

The company has built a fibre link from Nairobi to Namanga on the border of Kenya and Tanzania. Traffic terminating in Tanzania will now pass onto TTCL’s fibre network. He said Tanzania and others in the continent have made remarkable achievement to go from very low penetration rate of 1-2 per cent to close to 100 per cent in 15 years.

 

“It is certainly much quicker accomplished than elsewhere in the world. In Europe for example it took a decade to get the entire fibre optic network penetrations,” he said. He said, “We need to move from people having just a mobile phone to having high speed internet and other device services available in the houses and in the far way places.

 

Looking comparatively with Europe, 95 per cent of data consumption by volume is consumed on the fixed network in people’s houses; only five per cent by volume is consumed on the mobile phones.

 

It tells that mobile device is not always the most cost effective way to consume data and internet and to use a lot of content. And the way people use the content is at home and in office and they want that service to be high speed and available. To bring fibre into people’s homes means 100 megabytes per second, to give what it means to have high speed internet at most cost efficient way.

Source : in2eastafrica.net