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Tanzanian Minister of Information, Communications, and Information Technology Nape Nnauye stated that Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) was finalising the process for the signing of an MoU to sell National ICT Backbone Infrastructure to Uganda. Tanzania has already laid down a cable network to Mtukula and is supplying the network as a pilot study.
Tanzanian Minister of Information, Communications, and Information Technology Nape Nnauye stated that Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) was finalising the process for the signing of an MoU to sell National ICT Backbone Infrastructure to Uganda. Tanzania has already laid down a cable network to Mtukula and is supplying the network as a pilot study.
The Minister further stated that the country has access to various submarine cable networks. Already four and one with an average capacity of 10 terabytes per second and the other is 16 tele bites per second. Due to geographical position, the government will not only sell its infrastructures to Uganda but it would also sell to other landlocked countries. So far eight countries, including Rwanda, Mozambique, Kenya, and Uganda anticipated buying from Tanzania.
According to him, the biggest submarine cable that will enable them to supply infrastructure to a number of countries is the 180 tele bites per second which were recently launched by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
Earlier, Ugandan Minister for ICT and National Guidance Dr Chris Baryomunsi, said that they have hooked the National Backbone Infrastructure of Uganda to that of Tanzania so that their system can speak to each other. Dr. Baryomunsi added that the two countries have been interconnected to ease internet connection for the citizens of the two countries.
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Uganda has been relying on the fibre optic cable running through the Indian Ocean and through Mombasa, Kenya but unstable. This initiative helps to increase the internet supply and also the reduction in the cost of supplying it to the end user in Uganda. It now costs $35 to consume one megabit per second (Mbps) per month unlike in the past when it cost $70 per megabit per second per month.
August 10, 2023, President Samia Suluhu launched Airtel-2Africa Submarine Cable Landing Station The station launched by the President is created through the Intercontinental 2Africa cable which is a 45000-kilometer subsea cable system and the largest cable project in the world.
