Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a leading pan-African telecommunications technology group has announced the launch of its shortest terrestrial fibre route between the East to the West coasts of Africa, connecting Mombasa, Kenya to Muanda, DRC. With the completion of this route, Liquid establishes a new global internet transit route between Asia and the USA through Africa, avoiding high-risk bottlenecks in the Middle East and Europe. Liquid hopes the new route will serve the tens of millions of people in Africa’s landlocked cities, towns, and villages.
This digital corridor passes through 847 cities, towns, and villages, and reaches more than 138 million people. The cable is also a direct route between South-East Asia and the Americas across Africa itself. the new fibre network also manages to address the telecom demand in landlocked countries in Africa as more businesses expand their operations within and beyond African borders. The introduction of this route will allow global carriers and content providers to transmit through Africa to other global points of presence at the lowest possible latencies, according to Liquid.