The Cable Consortium of Liberia (CCL) is a public-private partnership

Public-private partnership

Public–private partnership describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies...

 formed in 2010 to own and operate Liberia's cable landing point

Cable landing point

A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be direct or via a branch from a main cable using a...

 for the ACE cable system

ACE (cable system)

The ACE submarine communications cable is a cable system undergoing construction along the west coast of Africa between France and South Africa, planned by the ACE consortium which was initiated on June 5, 2010....

. Stakeholders in the project include the Government of Liberia (60%), Libtelco

Liberia Telecommunications Corporation

The Liberia Telecommunications Corporation is a telecommunications company providing services in Liberia. Headquartered in Monrovia, the company provides telephone, Internet, fax and radio services to the Greater Monrovia area...

 (20%), Lonestar Cell

Lonestar Cell

Lonestar Cell is a telecommunications company based in Monrovia, Liberia. The company owns and operates the largest wireless telecommunications network in Liberia, with 48% of the market share in 2011. Founded in 2000 by Beirut-based Investcom, the company became a subsidiary of the South African...

 (10%), and Cellcom (10%).

CCL signed the Construction and Maintenance Agreement for the ACE system on 5 June 2010. The CCL's share of the US$700 million project is $25 million. The World Bank

World Bank

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 provided an initial US$5 million grant to finance half of the Government of Liberia's stake in the project. The cable will be the first fiber optic telecommunications cable to land in Liberia, which had not previously collaberated in other African cable projects due to its 14-year civil strife.

The cable landed in Monrovia

Monrovia

Monrovia is the capital city of the West African nation of Liberia. Located on the Atlantic Coast at Cape Mesurado, it lies geographically within Montserrado County, but is administered separately...

 on 3 November 2011, with the terminal station expected to be completed by December 2011. However, the cable will not become operational until the entire ACE system is completed, projected for Q2 2012. Once completed, maintenance of the .lr

.lr

.lr is the Internet country code top-level domain for Liberia. Before 2003 the registration was limited to those with a local presence and intent to use the domain. Since 2003 these limitations no longer exist....

 top-level domain

Top-level domain

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 for Liberia, currently maintained in the United States

United States

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, is expected to be relocated to Liberia.