The 2Africa cable should be completed this year. (UserGI15994093/Getty Images).
The longest subsea fibre optic cable in the world, which is being deployed along the coast of Africa, is expected to be completed this year.
It will provide another pathway for information to travel as the impact of subsea fibre-optic cable breaks on internet connectivity features increasingly on the radar of South Africans.
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