This year the Project has awarded a contract to a contractor who will bring the fiber connectivity from Dares Salaam to Lilongwe, creating a landing site in Lilongwe with redundancy with a redundant route to the West Sea Cable through Lusaka. It is expected that this will bring down the price of internet to US$200 per megabyte ultimately achieving the project objective. Government will receive fiber connection providing 620Mbps bandwidth. Current commercial fiber connectivity rates of year 2013 are range from US$750-US$1680 per megabyte. Additionally the current incumbent charges for the fiber used and labour costs for connecting building to nearest exchange point. 3.5 Electricity Supply Cooperation of Malawi (ESCOM) Optic Fibre project ESCOM has laid fiber-optic cables that connect Mozambique with the Zambian border town of Mchinji to ease communication problems. The cable network that connects Tete in Mozambique to Mchinji provides services ranging from voice, data, fax and radio communication system. The cables were laid on ESCOM's power lines throughout Malawi to build the networks that form part of the country's national fiber-optic backbone. They provide voice, data, fax and radio communication systems. The project which commenced in 2008 is ongoing with further plans for redundancy route to WACS Sea Cable through Lusaka, Zambia. The cabling which will provide ESCOM with a communication system linking the power generation center with control centers and, eventually, with the regional office, has more than enough bandwidth capacity with excess planned to be leased to ISPs (Internet service providers), mobile service providers, television companies, and government and education institutions. 3.6 Digital Migration The Ministry of Information in collaboration with Macra has embarked on a project to set up a switch centre which will facilitate the migration of all broadcasting services 28 Commented [ST3]: Down from what price?