"We hope it will be done in a fair way not to give advantage to whoever will win the bid to manage them," Rugege said.

Work on the 2,300 kilometer fiber optic cable, which cost some $93 million, was completed in January. The work included fiber installations on the Ugandan and Tanzanian borders where fiber runs to the East African coast and links to submarine cables.

The installation of equipment in government institutions that are directly connected to the optic fiber is ongoing and the entire network will be fully operational and commissioned by soon. The network cable is also expected to enhance the ICT industry by facilitating IT-based foreign investment in areas such as business process outsourcing.

The national data center, which will store all national data, was set up by a Swedish firm, Coromatic, at a cost of more than $5 million. The facility has the capacity to store and back-up data for neighboring countries that are interested.