Finnfund’s investment in digital connectivity dramatically increases access to internet in East, Central and South Africa
Finnfund provides a 12 million US dollar senior loan to Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group (BCS), a telecom infrastructure provider operating in several African countries. With Finnfund’s help as a key project investor, BCS is expanding its operations in East, Central and South Africa. The project increases reliability, accessibility and affordability of the internet when compared to the alternatives.
“Large areas still rely on satellite connections, and in many of these countries, data transfer prices are amongst the highest in the world”, says Yonas Maru,