Seacom to spur innovation

The first of four undersea cables bringing high-speed internet to eastern Africa goes live today (July 23rd 2009). The BBC’s Anne Waithera, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, finds a nation impatient to join the broadband revolution.In a busy cyber cafe in Nairobi dozens of people, mostly young, are hunched over computers surfing the net.I try to strike up a conversation with one of them but he will not even look my way. Without looking up from the monitor he signals with his hand that I should wait until he is done.
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