Paratus Group has activated a new 2,000-kilometer protected fiber-optic route linking Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), expanding cross-border connectivity.
- •The newly commissioned terrestrial network will carry traffic for wholesale customers including carriers, internet service providers and large enterprises from the cities of Mombasa to Goma.
- •The route will provide inland markets with direct access to subsea cable capacity from the Kenyan coast thus reducing reliance on fragmented national networks and satellite backhaul.
- •Paratus also said the route includes protected redundancy and direct interconnections with major data centers along the corridor, improving resilience and lowering latency for regional traffic.
“This is far more than another fiber link, it’s a new digital highway for the region. By creating a protected route from the coast all the way into Goma, we’re giving operators and enterprises direct, reliable access to global capacity,” Martin Cox, Chief Commercial Officer of Paratus Group said.
The launch deepens Paratus’s footprint in East Africa, where it operates through licensed subsidiaries in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The new fiber infrastructure also complements the company’s low-earth-orbit connectivity deployments in the region.
The East African route links into Paratus’s wider continental backbone, which runs from southeastern Africa to the Atlantic coast and connects with the Equiano subsea cable. The combined infrastructure provides alternative east-west paths for traffic between Africa and Europe.
