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This is a list of
terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
fibre optic cable A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable, but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to carry light. The optical fiber elements are typically individually coated with ...
projects in
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
. While
submarine communications cables A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...
are used to connect countries and continents to the
Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
, terrestrial fibre optic cables are used to extend this connectivity to landlocked countries or to urban centers within a country that has submarine cable access. In most of the world, a large number of such cables exist, often amounting to robust Internet backbones. The lack of such high-speed cables poses a great problem for most African countries. The construction of both submarine cables and their terrestrial extensions is thus considered an important step to economic growth and development to many African countries.


Countries


Algeria


Angola


Benin


Botswana


Burkina Faso


Burundi


Cameroon


Chad


Cote d'Ivoire


Democratic Republic of Congo


Djibouti


Egypt


eSwatini


Ethiopia


Gambia


Ghana


Guinea


Kenya


Liberia


Madagascar


Malawi


Mali


Mauritania


Morocco


Mozambique


Namibia


Niger


Nigeria


Rwanda


Senegal


Somalia


South Africa


South Sudan


Sudan


Tanzania


Togo


Uganda


Zambia


Zimbabwe


Notes

This list was initially developed as part of AfTerFibre, a project to map terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa. The project was sponsored by Google Africa and, on completion, will be hosted by the UbuntuNet Alliance. All information gathered by the project will be publicly available under an open license.


See also

*
List of international submarine communications cables This is a list of international submarine communications cables. It does not include domestic cable systems, such as those on the coastlines of Japan, Italy, and Brazil. All the cable systems listed below have landing points in two or more cou ...
* Central African Backbone * Kenya Data Networks *
Telecommunications in Namibia Telecommunications in Namibia include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Radio and television Per 1,000 inhabitants, there were 50 TV sets and 137 radio sets in Namibia in 2008. * Radio stations:
* Internet in Ethiopia * People's Republic of China – Ghana relations


References


External links


AfTerFibre Google Group

AfTerFibre Map

Greg's Cable Map

African Undersea Cables
{{Africa topic, Telecommunications in Optical telecommunications cables