عنوان درس: اینترنت با سرعت بالا در شرق آفریقا

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It has certainly been an ambitious project, laying a seventeen thousand kilometre fibre optic cable under the sea, linking Europe and Asia with East and Southern Africa. In a few weeks there should be fast broadband internet in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa. The Tanzanian president, Jakaya Kikwete, gave a live telecast across the region and trumpeted the event as a major breakthrough.

Jakaya Kikwete

When the whole of Tanzania ..., we be brought into the modern age of communications, e-commerce, e-medicine, e-government, e-everything - that will be the greatest thing in our history.

Here in Kenya there will be a huge sigh of relief. I've just been to the fifteenth floor of an office block where a frustrated Benjamin Waithaka works as an animator. He designs 3 D websites that often can't even be opened because of the slow internet and when he creates designs for clients he can't send them over the net, he has to battle Nairobi's traffic jams to deliver them by hand.

Benjamin Waithaka

Our frustration is actually an understatement for the traffic is sort of mad. Getting your job to a certain destination may take one hour, two hours but with a fibre optic cable then the whole idea of you going through the traffic, well pretty much is not there.

But you're hoping if you can become more efficient as a business that will create more jobs?

Absolutely yes. More jobs, yeah.

In theory the region could be on the brink of an exciting internet revolution. Businesses like call centres could boom here. But it all depends how well the service is rolled out. What is not clear is when the technology might reach the villages where for many accessing a reliable electricity supply and water are still the main priority.

Will Ross, BBC News, East Africa

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an ambitious project
یک طرح بلندپروازانه

fibre optic cable
کابل فیبر نوری

broadband internet
اینترنت پر سرعت، اینترنت باند پهن

trumpeted the event
در اینجا: موضوع را با سروصدای زیاد اعلام کرد

a major breakthrough
اتفاق مهمی که وضعیت موجود را به مراتب بهتر می کند، موفقیت چشمگیر

a huge sigh of relief
نفسی به راحتی کشیدن، احساس آرامشی که پس از رفع یک مشکل بزرگ به شخص دست می دهد

send them over the net
he can not send them over the net : نمی تواند از طریق اینترنت آنها (طرح ها) را بفرستد

on the brink of
در آستانه........، در شرف...........

boom
در اینجا: ترقی ناگهانی، رونق، افزایش سریع

rolled out
is rolled out : برای اولین بار ارائه می شود