Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Kenya seeks marine telecom cable to Europe

(Reuters) - Kenya plans to join in a new undersea fibre-optic cable, SEAMEWE-5, that will connect it to Europe via Asia in a bid to cut telecoms costs, a senior government official told Reuters.

The country is keen to capture some of the call centre and IT support outsourcing business that is mainly going to India and the Philippines but expensive satellite connections have meant this has been out of reach.


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