Inhabitants of Sao Tome and Principe, the small country located in the gulf of Guinea, offshore Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, are about to have access to high-speed internet. The African Coast to Europe consortium which is represented by French telecom group Orange, its subsidiaries and other investors, just announced the starting of construction for a landing station for fiber optic which is to cover the whole country.

The cable which is to land in Sao Tome will extend to South Africa. This is a 5,000 km long infrastructure. Once it is operational, this international network will make the archipelago, the 18th destination where this optic fiber cable is present, both in Africa and Europe. Truly, the ACE cable is already in France, Portugal, the Canary Islands (Spain), Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mali and Niger.

In Sao Tome and Principe, the optic fiber cable will have a total capacity of 12.8 Tbps via the 100 Gbps technology which supports high-speed networks.