www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Safaricom entered into a deal with Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to lease fibre-optic cable capacity across its national network. With this deal, the company will come on a par with backbone operators such as Telkom and Kenya Data Networks.

Under the deal, a fibre-optic pair on KPLC’s 1,500km Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system will be operated by Safaricom as built across the national power grid.

According to Safaricom CEO, Michael Joseph, with this new fibre system, they are entering a new realm as a data carrier which will be a major complement to the massive investments made in the country’s main undersea cable ventures and will definitely be offering a better end-to-end data proposition to both retail and wholesale customers.