West Africa Internet Access Increases

Photo:  Place de cineaste at night, Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso, West Africa 

According to the Associated Press, for decades West Africa's main Internet connection has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, described as both tenuous and expensive. A second cable -- a new $250-million MainOne cable -- along the West African coast, ending at Lagos, Nigeria, aims to create a five-fold increase in Internet capacity. Bandwidth availability in West Africa should be significantly increased by the summer of 2012, according to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union. This investment in Africa's communications infrastructure will have a positive impact on the continent's trade growth in the coming years.

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