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The capitals
of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been linked by an
under-river fibre cable installed by Chinese engineers, Africa Info reports
from Duala, Cameroon. Thanks to the connection, residents of Brazzaville and
Kinshasa and the wider population will eventually benefit from ICT services
such as IPTV, e-learning, e-banking, telemedicine
and e-commerce. The two cities were initially connected by a co-axial cable,
then used satellite phone links through Paris and Brussels, respectively.
Congo has a WACS undersea cable landing station in its southern city of
Matombi. Africa Info writes that WACS was built to link countries that were
missed by the SAT3 cable, namely Congo, Equatorial Guinea, DRC, Togo, Cameroon,
Angola, Botswana and Gabon.
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