Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) on Thursday launched a fibre optic cable that will run from the port of Mombasa through Nairobi to Kisumu and Eldoret in western Kenya. Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) as part of business diversification and to meet their ever-increasing bandwidth demand for voice, data and video, obtained a Network Facility Provider (NFP) - Tier 2 Network Infrastructure License in 2018 from Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to lease Fiber Optic. Kenya's fibre optic expansion is the most important project in Kenya's ambitious Digital Superhighway plan. At this moment the project is 50 per cent complete with a total of 1,300 kilometres of fibre optic connectivity already. Liquid Telecom Kenya, part of leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has today announced a 10-year partnership with Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) to operate KETRACO's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) fibre cable and expand the internet network across East Africa. KPC, which supplies fuel to Kenya and neighbouring countries, has been working on the fibre optics infrastructure since 2018 when it.
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