West Africa: Telecom Cable Connects Region With Europe

An undersea telecommunications table landed in Sierra Leone on Monday. The new cable is part of a 17,000-kilometre fibre optic line that aims to connect countries along the West African coast to Europe.

At a ceremony receiving his country's part of the line, President Ernest Koroma hailed the "momentous and great communication transformation" in a country where Internet penetration is currently at a mere six percent and mobile penetration at 35 percent.

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