Highway Africa News Agency (Grahamstown)
Noel Kokou Tadégnon
19 September 2007
Geneva — Togo and Benin can now boast of a telecommunications link between following the launch of a fibre optic cable linking the two countries.
The ceremony was attended by the two country's heads of states who later paid a short visit to the signal centres.
Togo will now be connected to the outside world via a fibre optic cable that will deliver voice, data, and video through a cable that is 165 km long that cuts through the city of Cotonou.
The cable is expected to deliver up to 500 million minutes of voice data per month and will allow GSM operators and other ICT institutions to benefit from a better quality of communication services.
The project was put together by Togo Telecom and the work lasted for 18 months costing 16 billion CFA (approximately 33.840.00 dollars) in total. . Togo began the process of digitalizing the country's telecommunications services as far back as 1992 and in 2003 started installing more than 750 km of optic fiber that offer more than 30.420 simultaneous communication services to Togolese homes.
The system of underwater cable being provided by SAT3 connects Europe, Africa and Asia with a total capacity of 120 Giga bits/second
Be the first to Write a Comment!
Copyright © 2007 Highway Africa News Agency. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
