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Affordable internet costs key to attaining Vision 2030 projects

Paul Nyabicha

Not long ago, as the country struggled to establish internet connectivity with the rest of the world via submarine fibre optic cables, we were regaled with tales of how internet would become cheap once the project was completed. We were told once the three undersea cables landed at the Coast, the hitherto prohibitive cost of downloading content from the Internet would be next to nothing.

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