Kenya Power plans to expand fibre optic cable leasing Electricity distributor Kenya Power plans to lease out its fibre optic cables to add USD 5.9 million to its earnings. It intends to lease its internet infrastructure this financial year ending June 2014, the Star reported. Its 1,800 km fibre network has 48 strands and it plans to offer 36 of them for leasing. Chief manager for IT and telecommunications Samuel Ndirangu said Kenya Power has finalised talks with Airtel Kenya and the Kenya Electricity Generating Company and has opened talks with county governments and Ugandan firm Bandwidth Cloud Services, too.
Kenya Power aims to cover the entire country with fibre estimated at 25,000 km in the long term. In the year to June 2013, KPLC generated USD 11.8 million from leasing cables to Safaricom, Kenya Data Network, Jamii Telecoms and Wananchi Group.
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