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