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During March 2025, Bandwidth and Cloud Services (BCS) announced that it had completed the deployment of a 400-km submarine cable through Lake Tanganyika. The 24 core submarine cable connects Uvira and Kalemie in Eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and future plans could expand connectivity to Tanzania and Burundi (see also DRC: BCS Deploys Submarine Cable Through Lake Tanganyika From Uvira - Kalemie). BCS previously laid a cross-border submarine cable through Lake Albert between Uganda and DRC during 2019, and in 2020 deployed a second cable through Lake Albert. BCS is currently also installing 2,500-km of fibre optic cable along railway lines in the Eastern DRC which will link Kalemie to Kamina, Bukama, Sakania (see DRC: BCS Signs Agreement With SNCC To Deploy 2,500-Km Fibre Along Railway Lines in DRC).