Kenya has welcomed the sixth submarine fibre cable worth USD400 million (Sh44 billion).
Dubbed Peace Cable, it is connecting Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt, France and countries along the way with an extension to Singapore and South Africa.
Speaking during the launch, ICT CS Joe Mucheru said the 15,000KM cable has a combined capacity of the other five launched in the past decade hence with improve efficiency and cutting internet costs in Kenya and the region.
The cable has a designed capacity of 16 Terabytes per second and is expected to last 25 years.
It was funded under Public Private Partnership courtesy of Telkom Kenya, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Cybernet, HMN Tech and PCCW Global.
In 2022, Kenya got the fifth 36-Terabyte undersea internet cable from Djibouti.
The fibre optic cable is known as Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1).
The first one was TEAMS (The East African Marine System), which landed in 2009.
Others are the Eastern African Submarine Cable System (EASsy) and Lion2 which links Madagascar to Kenya.
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