AR Telecom abandons residential sector

Chinese telecoms equipment vendor ZTE is one of a number of international firms to have expressed an interest in participating in Safaricom’s recently-announced tender for firms to roll out, operate and maintain a 4,000km national fibre-optic network. Business Daily Africa reports that the cable, which has been provisionally priced at KES4.8 billion (USD50.5 million), will become the second largest inland network, behind the government’s much-maligned 4,300km National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI). Three different equipment suppliers were chosen to deploy NOFBI, with each vendor responsible for one of the three regional sections; Huawei deployed networks in Nairobi and the central region, ZTE covered the west, and Sagem handled the rollout in the coastal and north-eastern zones [More]

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