Ship's Anchor Slows Internet

East Africa's high speed internet access has been severely disrupted because a ship has dropped its anchor on fibre optic cables off the coast of Kenya. Since 2009 East Africa has been connected with three undersea cables. The damage to this one, which could take 14 days to repair is going to slow speeds across the region. The arrival of the cables has seen internet usage increase in Kenya from 1.8 million users to 3.1 million users.

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