While the East African government was considering how to extort Britain, Russell used the convenient communications network to explain the East African government's position to London.
After all the messages had been sent, Russell could not help sighing to his subordinates, "In terms of communications technology and its spread alone, East Africa is already remarkably powerful!"
His assistant, Robinson, said, "In communications, East Africa stands on the same level as Europe and North America. Europe has the most developed communications, and North America is not bad either. As for the whole of Africa, East Africa has practically single-handedly raised this continent to heights it did not belong to."
East Africa had established quite advanced telegraph and telephone lines as early as the last century. By the 1880s, it had formed a nationwide telegraph network. Of course, East Africa had not yet occupied lands such as Angola and Mozambique at that time.
In the 1890s, East Africa not only achieved enormous breakthroughs in telecommunications technology, with radio beginning to spread, but also upgraded telegraph and telephone technology once again. Coupled with the reshaping of its territory and economic development, East Africa ushered in a wave of industrial construction in the communications sector.
Within the country, East Africa carried out large-scale communications construction in regions such as Angola, Mozambique, and Orange. In the eastern and central regions, it upgraded and renovated existing lines, while rapidly laying communications cables in other underdeveloped areas, especially northern East Africa.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, during East Africa's first two industrial plans, East Africa began planning independent overseas submarine cable routes.
The most typical examples were the submarine cable between the West Coast and Western Europe, as well as two routes directly linking East Africa with the Far East Empire.
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