Orange hooks up with the New Silk Road to improve service in the Indian Ocean
Orange and the Hong Kong group Hengtong Optic-Electric have signed a partnership for a 15,000-km fibre-optic cable linking China, East Africa and Europe.
25/09/2019 at 16h23, by Africa Business+
Orange will not finance the cable directly but, for an undisclosed amount, will buy capacity of 500 gigabytes per second to improve its services in the Indian Ocean, particularly for La Réunion and Mayotte, an important region for the group. The French telecoms champion wants to break free from its dependency on the EASSy cable which connects Djibouti and South Africa along the East African coast. The new PEACE cable has a capacity of 16 Tbits per second (i.e. 16,000 gigabytes) and Orange will buy just over 3%.
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