Kenya

Internet isolation could be over in East Africa today as Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki formally opens an undersea fibre-optic line.

The cable should give the country and the region a fast and cheap connection to the internet, in the past companies have had to rely on slow and expensive satellite connections.

The cable known as TEAMS, is co-owned by the government and a number of privates companies. Two similar private projects are also underway.

BBC Network Africa's Anne Waithera has been finding out what difference this could make to interner users in Nairobi.