The South African telecom group MTN is planning to build a pan-African fiber optic network called East2Africa. For this reason, on Monday, May 15, a partnership agreement was signed with a view to granting the financing necessary to carry out this strategic project.

The partnership agreement was signed between the telecom company and Africa50, a leading infrastructure investment platform on the continent created by African governments and the African Development Bank. In reality, the African market for broadband connectivity

A en croire Ralph Mupita, the CEO of MTN Group , “this partnership with Africa50 comes at an opportune time, just as we are renaming MTN GlobalConnect to Bayobab to position the company as an open access digital infrastructure platform focused on Africa [...] For landlocked African countries, the East2West project will improve latency by nearly two-thirds and increase capacity to take In charge of an access high quality broadband. In this way, it will level the playing field and ensure everyone has a fair chance to succeed in the digital world