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In the twelve months since July 2011, an additional 36,165-km of terrestrial fibre optic network has entered service across Africa, according to the Q2, 2012 additions to the Africa Telecom Transmission Map. Dozens of new towns and cities have been reached by fibre networks for the first time, increasing the number of people with access to high capacity national and international backbone networks. This roll out of terrestrial networks in the last year has brought an additional 31.903 million people across Sub-Saharan Africa within reach of an operational fibre node. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, the table below shows that the percentage of population within a 25-km range of an operational (terrestrial) fibre node increased from 36.3% to 40.0% in the last year, from 313.2 million people to 345.1 million. Once fibre network which is currently under construction enters service, the reach of terrestrial fibre networks will increase to 43.8% of the population (377.9 million). And once fibre network... Read More →