Orange launches new high-speed telecoms network across West Africa

JOHANNESBURG: French telecoms company Orange launched a new fibre-optic network in West Africa on Tuesday that will deliver superfast broadband and other high-speed telecoms services across a region that is home to over 300 million people.

The network, called Djoliba, couples a 10,000 km cross-border terrestrial fibre optic network with 10,000 km of undersea cables to provide high-speed broadband transmission and seamless connection to Orange’s international networks.

Orange is the dominant telecommunications operator in French-speaking West Africa and says its new network provides cross-border transmission whereas existing infrastructure in the region is national.