In Togo, 200km of fiber optic planned under the government’s e-government project has been laid in Lomé, the capital. The high tech network should be operational by the end of 2016 and will connect 500 administrative sites such as ministries, public agencies, airport, hospitals and universities.
Works for the installation of the infrastructure were undertaken by Huawei at a cost of $25 million. By connecting public administrations to the fiber optic, Togo would make public services more efficient.
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The Government of Togo has launched an ambitious project to connect 500 institutions, including ministries, government agencies, hospitals, universities and airports, to fibre-optic infrastructure by the end of next year. At the launch of its e-government initiative on 10 March, the government confirmed the signing of an equipment contract with Huawei Technologies of China, which will see 200km of cabling deployed in the tiny African nation. Funding for the project is being facilitated via concessionary financing from Exim Bank of China. Shi Weiliang, vice president for West Africa at Huawei, said that the optical fibre will be installed in ‘less than a year’, and will improve Togo’s internet capacity which is currently limited to its single link to the West Africa Cable System (WACS).
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