The European Investment Bank has previously supported the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System initiative to connect twenty coastal and land-locked countries in East and Southern Africa using a high bandwidth undersea fibre optic cable and terrestrial link to the rest of the world.

We offer a wide range of broadcasting distribution and telecommunications services as well as local community programming through our extensive broadband fibre and coaxial cable network, extending from Windsor to the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula.

Broadband access can be delivered by a variety of platforms: telephone and cable wires, wireless connections, fibre, satellite and electrical powers.

To encourage competition, retail operators will, inter alia, also be able to lease from the wholesale provider so-called ‘dark fibre’ (i.e. a plain fibre-optic cable with no optical transmission equipment - operators may add their own equipment and build their own network, retaining complete control over the fibre).

"electronic communications network" means transmission systems and, where applicable, switching or routing equipment and other resources which permit the conveyance of signals by wire, by radio, by optical or by other electromagnetic means, including satellite networks, fixed (circuit- and packet-switched, including Internet) and mobile terrestrial networks, networks used for radio and television broadcasting, and cable TV networks, irrespective of the type of information conveyed, and electricity cables or wires, to the extent that they are used for the purpose of conveying commercial ...[+++] information ;

The tools used in the world of telecommunications today are very sophisticated, whether we are talking about optical fibres or coaxial cables, and it is the tools that are the government's main concern.