Speaking while presenting the 2025/2026 budget estimates in Parliament on Thursday, National Treasury CS John Mbadi announced that the government has laid an additional 4,690 kilometers of high-speed fiber optic cable—enhancing broadband access in previously underserved counties . Speaking while presenting the 2025/2026 budget estimates in Parliament on Thursday, National Treasury CS John Mbadi announced that the government has laid an additional 4,690 kilometers of high-speed fiber optic cable—enhancing broadband access in previously underserved counties . Kenya's fibre optic expansion is the most important project in Kenya's ambitious Digital Superhighway plan. The purpose is to raise fibre optic coverage of the country from 62% to 90% by the end of the next financial year. This project is presently in an intermediate phase of implementation with. The Authority is financing the laying of 2,500 kilometres of fibre across nineteen counties at a cost of Sh5 billion to enhance Internet access for Kenyans in the rural areas. At this moment the project is 50 per cent complete with a total of 1,300 kilometres of fibre optic connectivity already. ICT Authority Board of Directors chairperson Lilly Ng'o (2L), the Authority's acting CEO Zilpher Owiti with other board members and members of Authority's management during an induction exercise at a hotel in Machakos county on September 26, 2025. The government has pledged to install 100,000. The Government of Kenya, in partnership with the World Bank, is advancing plans to expand fiber optic connectivity across the country and at its borders, building on the momentum from the successful rollout of the first phase of the Eastern Africa Regional Transport, Trade and Development. Kenya has started rolling out an extra 100,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable, with the work expected to be completed by 2027, a senior government official said. Speaking while presenting the 2025/2026 budget estimates in Parliament on Thursday, National Treasury CS.
