Africa repeatedly has massive internet problems. Submarine cables connecting the continent with Europe broke earlier this year. Google is now investing in new infrastructure.
Google plans to invest a billion dollars (862 million euros) in the digitization of Africa over the next five years.
This includes a new submarine cable connection, which should enable faster Internet speeds and lower connection costs, said Google boss Sundar Pichai on Wednesday. The fiber optic cable called “Equiano” will run through South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria and the remote island of St. Helena and connect the continent with Europe, it said.
A consortium around the Facebook group is also building a new submarine cable in Africa. The “2Africa” project, which is scheduled to start operating at the end of 2023 / beginning of 2024, is intended to connect Africa from Egypt to Europe and via Saudi Arabia to the Middle East.
In Africa, broken submarine cables have repeatedly led to massive internet problems. At the beginning of 2020, two cables in the Atlantic that connect several countries in Africa with Europe failed. This also affected international calls and mobile roaming.
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