DRC Explores River Corridor Project to Expand National Fiber Optic
The proposed project covers about 2,100 kilometers of infrastructure, including 1,700 kilometers of fiber-optic cable
Congo fiber optic plans advance: DR Congo signed an MoU with China's Genew for a $1. 5 billion, 2,100 km cable corridor along the Congo River to Kisangani. —The route: Roughly 2,100 km of infrastructure: about 1,700 km of cable following the river from Muanda on the Atlantic to Kisangani, plus some. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is looking at the Congo River as a new route for expanding its national fiber-optic network. The DRC and Genew Technologies plan to build about 2,100km of fiber. On June 25, 2026, the government, through the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Technology, signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese company Genew Technologies for. The projec...

The proposed project covers about 2,100 kilometers of infrastructure, including 1,700 kilometers of fiber-optic cable
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The project covers about 2,100km of infrastructure, including 1,700km of fiber-optic cable along the Congo River from
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