DRC is expected to get connected to the Optical fiber The Managing Director of the Company Congolese General of Posts and Telecommunications (SCPT), Placide Mbatika said October 18.
Mbatika said the work of installing transmission equipment will start next Monday at the Moanda landing station, where the DRC must be connected to the optical fiber.
According to Mbatika, the connection to the optical fiber must be made two weeks after the beginning of this work.
However,Mbatika said that the commercialization of the connection will begin three months later.
DRC missed a first opportunity to connect to the fiber in May. Thirteen other African countries had done at the start of the project WACS (West African Cable system submarin).
This project Telecom giant MTN aims to connect fourteen African countries to use fiber optic broadband internet.
“The DRC has not been connected because we’re a little behind the construction of the landfall to be connected to the optical fiber.
In two months, the work [construction of this station] will be finished, “said Mbatika who attended the launch of the WACS in South Africa.
Arrested at the National Assembly in June, about this failure, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Kin-Kiey Mulumba, said connecting the DRC to the optical fiber was blocked following the hijacking of the US$3 million for this operation.
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