Trans-Kalahari project to boost ICT infrastructure

Friday, February 16, 2007

GHANZI: The Trans-Kalahari project, which will cover an approximate 2000 kilometres of optical fibre, has the potential to change the country's ICT infrastructure.

Marking the ground-breaking launch of the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC's) Trans-Kalahari and SDH project this week in Ghanzi, Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, said that when completed, the Trans-Kalahari project will connect the planned EASSy and WAFS under-sea fibre cable projects.

The Trans-Kalahari project is sub-divided into three parts, with the first leg earmarked to start in Jwaneng, via Ghanzi to Mamuno - a phase that will connect directly to Namibia.

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Trans-Kalahari project to boost ICT infrastructure

GHANZI: The Trans-Kalahari project, which will cover an approximate 2000 kilometres of optical fibre, has the potential to change the country's ICT infrastructure.

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