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| [00:00.00] | It has been an ambitious project. |
| [00:01.84] | Laying a 17,000 kilometre fibre optic cable |
| [00:05.41] | under the sea linking Europe and Asia |
| [00:08.10] | with East and Southern Africa. |
| [00:09.73] | Seacom, a Mauritius-based company, |
| [00:12.22] | is today officially launching the arrival |
| [00:14.11] | of a fast broadband internet service in Kenya, |
| [00:17.21] | Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa. |
| [00:19.55] | It should be commercially available in a few weeks' time. |
| [00:23.06] | Three other fibre optic cables are due to become operational soon |
| [00:27.09] | including one which is backed by the Kenyan government. |
| [00:29.63] | In theory the region could be on the brink of an internet revolution. |
| [00:33.46] | But it all depends how well the service is rolled out across the region. |