A Guinea-Bissau inaugurated today a center from which the country will start to receive internet provided by submarine cable from the consortium ACE. This submarine cable starts in France and crosses the entire African continent, bringing broadband internet, using fiber optics, to several African countries.
This infrastructure was inaugurated on 28/03/2023 by the Deputy Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Soares Sambu, who believes that very soon the country will have broadband internet. Bissau authorities believe that with the new infrastructure “very soon” Guinea-Bissau will have broadband internet.
According to the Guinean deputy prime minister, so that the submarine cable, from which the country will receive broadband internet, can start operating, the so-called 'backbone' or backbone, which is an intermediate telecommunications data transmission network. With this network built, Soares Sambu believes that Guinea-Bissau inaugurates “a true transformation process based on telecommunications”. The Guinean Minister of Transport and Communications, Aristides Ocante da Silva, said that this is one of the “most advanced” infrastructures in Guinea-Bissau.
The mooring to the international submarine cable takes place from the town of Suru, in the northeast of Guinea-Bissau, and will lead to the Antula power station, in the suburbs of Bissau, at a distance of 30 kilometers, where it connects to the existing network. in the country. This project for mooring Guinea-Bissau to the ACE international submarine cable was financed by the World Bank in the amount of 30 million euros.
