[00:00.00]It has been an ambitious project.
[00:01.84]Laying a 17,000 kilometre fibre optic cable
[00:05.41]under the sea linking Europe and Asia
[00:08.10]with East and Southern Africa.
[00:09.73]Seacom, a Mauritius-based company,
[00:12.22]is today officially launching the arrival
[00:14.11]of a fast broadband internet service in Kenya,
[00:17.21]Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa.
[00:19.55]It should be commercially available in a few weeks' time.
[00:23.06]Three other fibre optic cables are due to become operational soon
[00:27.09]including one which is backed by the Kenyan government.
[00:29.63]In theory the region could be on the brink of an internet revolution.
[00:33.46]But it all depends how well the service is rolled out across the region.

It has been an ambitious project.
Laying a 17,000 kilometre fibre optic cable
under the sea linking Europe and Asia
with East and Southern Africa.
Seacom, a Mauritius-based company,
is today officially launching the arrival
of a fast broadband internet service in Kenya,
Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa.
It should be commercially available in a few weeks' time.
Three other fibre optic cables are due to become operational soon
including one which is backed by the Kenyan government.
In theory the region could be on the brink of an internet revolution.
But it all depends how well the service is rolled out across the region.