Ethio Telecom is working with its neighbour in Djibouti to run a fibre link from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
Ethio Telecom and its partner, Djibouti Telecom, then plan to extend the network to the adjoining countries of Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan.
The network will run along the Chinese-built 754km Ethio-Djibouti Railway (EDR), opened on 1 January 2018.