Google said that it’s $1 billion investment in Africa will also boost the internet speed in Nigeria by 500% through the laying of Equaino Sea cable, this the Google Sub Saharan Africa head noted will ensure affordability and access.
The SSA head Google, Olumide Balogun revealed this during his sit down interview with Punch on how the billion dollar investment will positively boost Nigeria tech industry.
On the readiness of the project, Balogun said; “So our Equiano sub-sea cable, which will do this, will run through a few countries including Nigeria, and connect Africa with Europe. The initial configuration of Equiano is scheduled to be ready in the second half of 2022.”
This latest project, Google noted will drop internet subscription fees by 20%:
“Our investment would drop Internet costs by 16 to 21 per cent, and increase speed by five folds in Nigeria while offering 1.6 million jobs. That is on the access side. We’ve also built products, helpful products that are really instrumental to how people run their businesses daily and we are looking to see how we invest in that, going forward. We’ve brought Nigerian voices to maps, what we want to do going into the future is to double down on delivering products. Recently, we just launched a product, YouTube Shorts, which essentially helps creators here. As you know, we are in a very creative environment in Nigeria.”
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