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High-tech internet solution across the Congo River links Kinshasa, Brazzaville

High-tech internet solution across the Congo River links Kinshasa, Brazzaville

SETH ONYANGO, BIRD ALPHABET’S research and development subsidiary, X (X Development LLC) has begun beaming high-speed internet across the Congo River, expanding network connectivity to nearly 18 million people in Kinshasa and Brazzaville. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies (LIT) to bridge a 4.8-km connectivity gap between Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a major breakthrough that solves the challenge of painstaking laying fibre optic cables across the Congo River, the world’s deepest and second-fastest river. Before the novel initiative, dubbed “Project Taara”, connectivity was five…
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