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Quiet launch of undersea cable heralds arrival of digital revolution
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga (in cap) look on as the Chairman of TEAMs Kenya Limited, Mr Michael Joseph, points at the MV Niwa marine cable ship which had docked at the Fort Jesus seafront to deliver the final section of the TEAMs Kenya Limited Fibre Optic marine cables in Mombasa. The President aptly described the project as another landmark leap in the country’s development history. /Gideon Maundu.
Save for the grandeur of the presidential entourage that graced the event, June 12 would probably have passed quietly just like any other ordinary Friday.
Yet this was the day President Kibaki had flown to Mombasa to preside over the official launch of the fibre-optic undersea cable — a project whose completion is set to usher in a new era of faster and cheaper internet connectivity in the region.
