The government of Burkino Faso has chosen Telecel Faso's new subsidiary Bridge Fiber Solutions (BFS) to operate and maintain the country's fibre optic backbone network. The mobile operator Orange Burkina Faso has burst into the segment of fiber optic connectivity to individuals and businesses. The telecoms company officially launched the service last week in Ouagadougou in the presence of the Minister of Digital Economy, Posts and Digital Transformation, Hadja. Orange announced the commissioning and commercial launch of Djoliba, the first pan-African backbone network, covering 8 countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal. Spanning 3000km and connecting nearly 100 municipalities across all 13 regions, Burkina Faso's fibre optic network also has. While submarine communications cables are used to connect countries and continents to the Internet, terrestrial fibre optic cables are used to extend this connectivity to landlocked countries or to urban centers within a country that has submarine cable access. In most of the world, a large number.
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