Kenya’s cable wars fuel battle for faster and cheaper Internet

Fibre optic cables

Workers lay a fibre optic cable in Chepkanga on the Eldoret-Iten road during a past county project.

Photo credit: Jared Nyataya | Nation

Kenya’s Internet market is entering a new phase as telecom operators, State agencies and global technology firms escalate investments in fibre infrastructure, to secure bandwidth, resilience and control over data traffic.

At the centre of this shift is a growing race to own cables rather than lease capacity, a move that is redrawing competition lines and reshaping how Internet services are delivered to consumers.

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