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Uganda is laying the wrong fibre optic cable for the national backbone infrastructure, local and international experts have said. Uganda is using the G652 type whereas it should be using G655 for the kind of data Uganda will need to transmit. But despite instructions from the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Parliament to halt the second phase until the technical issues have been resolved, the Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, has refused to stop.

Read more: Uganda lays wrong ICT cable ­- Experts

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The government has ditched technical safeguards for proper construction and functioning of the multi-billion national optic fibre backbone infrastructure, Daily Monitor can reveal.

Our investigations show that the original October 2006 turnkey contract between the government and Huawei Technologies Ltd, a Chinese Company, has already been altered three times, the latest being on August 18, 2009 under which some crucial provisions on quality standards have been removed.

Read more: Uganda: Fresh Storm Brews Over National Fibre Optic Cable Project

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The Inspectorate of Government has cleared the controversial sh200b Government internet project. The project, which consists of three phases, involves building a 2,100km fibre optic cable network.

Ultimately, it is meant to link Uganda to the submarine cable on the East African coast and provide faster and cheaper internet access.

The Inspector General of Government (IGG), Raphael Baku, gave the go-ahead in a letter to ethics minister Nsaba Buturo earlier this month.

Read more: Uganda: Inspector General of Government clears controversial internet project

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An audit of Uganda's US$106 million national fiber backbone and e-government infrastructure project, which was contracted to Huawei Technologies of China, has brought to the fore inadequate supervision by the relevant government ministry and pricing anomalies on the part of the contractor.

The first phase, costing $30 million, was investigated by the government's auditor general, John Muwanga, at the request of the parliamentary committee on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The resulting 29-page report raises serious questions about the way in which the contractor, Huawei, was selected to implement the project, including the laying of 2,100 kilometers of fiber-optic cable. The auditor general said that Huawei's proposal was not evaluated based on the set standards.

Read more: Audit faults Huawei, ministry on Ugandan Internet project

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The Auditor General has uncovered serious anomalies regarding work on Phase I of the $106 million (Shs201b) national backbone infrastructure project to enhance the country’s Internet capacity. The report of the forensic audit, which this newspaper has seen, also raises serious questions about the project’s value-for-money, particularly the $2.2 million (Shs4.1b) reportedly used to repair broken installations.

Read more: Uganda: Government Internet plan runs into trouble

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