Algeria’s government presented a new General Policy declaration to parliament on recently, placing the improvement of the quality of connectivity and universal access to high speed internet among its priorities. As reported by Algerie Presse Service, Prime Minister Aimene Benaberrahmane declared: ‘Improving the quality of connectivity for the benefit of citizens, economic operators and public establishments and the generalisation of access to high and very high speed internet in a ubiquitous manner, are among the priorities of the action of the government.’
The PM highlighted recent achievements in connectivity projects, noting that work was underway to increase international bandwidth capacity to 3.8Tbps by the end of 2022 (compared to 2.8Tbps in 2021 and 1.4Tbps in 2019) via optimisation of existing infrastructure, while plans are afoot to join a new submarine cable project earmarked for commissioning in 2025 to strengthen the resilience of the international transmission network and gradually replace legacy cables.