Zambia’s CEC Liquid Telecom has invested $15 million in a Fibre To The Home (FTTH) project, which is expected to provide about 20,000 premises in Zambian capital Lusaka, with access to fast broadband internet with unlimited data packages, by the end of the year.

The company was formed through a partnership between Liquid Telecom Group, a subsidiary of Econet Wireless, and Zambia’s Copperbelt Energy Corporation.

“The FTTH service will provide the fastest broadband ever available in Zambia and indeed Africa. Today’s announcement cements the country’s most reliable and consistent broadband provider. With the launch of the FTTH build, services will become available as each targeted area is connected with a likelihood that the build will extend to the Copperbelt towns by the end of the year,” said Andre Kapula, CEC Liquid Telecom managing director.

The company also offers wholesale capacity in all of Zambia’s ten provinces and is also an operator with customers from all sectors. It has the first fully-redundant network in the country and is able to provide Service Level Agreements at a level not previously experienced in Zambia, owing to its end-to-end ownership of the
network.

By George Mpofu