{"id":7552,"date":"2014-02-27T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:00:56","slug":"burundi-launches-first-phase-of-national-fibre-optic-backbone-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/7552","title":{"rendered":"Burundi Launches First Phase of National Fibre Optic Backbone Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fibre-Optic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7553 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fibre-Optic-300x151.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fibre-Optic-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fibre-Optic-220x110.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fibre-Optic.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Burudian authorities have marked the completion of the first phase of a national fibre optic network project launched in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the East African Business Week, President Pierre Nkurunziza commissioned the milestone last month at a ceremony in Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<p>The Burundi Backbone System (BBS) Company, which is behind the construction of the network, is made up of five top telecommunication companies in Burundi, including state-owned Onatel.<\/p>\n<p>BBS reportedly is receiving support from the World Bank through the Regional Communication Infrastructure Program, the Government of Burundi, as well as some private partners.<\/p>\n<p>President Nkurunziza has directed BBS officials to hasten the construction of the second and third phases of the national fibre optic network. He has also invited investment into the country&#8217;s budding information communication technology industry.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 8 out of Burundi&#8217;s 17 provinces are reportedly connected to the fibre optic network, which taps into a grid of six border points, linking it with several countries in the region, as well as The East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy).<\/p>\n<p>Pundits have noted that the construction of the network, reportedly being undertaken by China&#8217;s ZTE Corporation, is expected to have a huge impact on virtually all industries in the land-locked nation.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently unclear when the two other phases of the BBS network will be finished.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by The East African: Engineers laying undersea cables at the Dar es Salaam port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burudian authorities have marked the completion of the first phase of a national fibre optic network project launched in 2012. According to a report by the East African Business Week, President Pierre Nkurunziza commissioned the milestone last month at a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/7552\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,409,1],"tags":[4974,1632],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}