Sierra Leone will soon clear the way for a major telecoms project to install a cable from Europe to Africa to provide faster Internet and mobile services, a minister said Friday. 'A high powered delegation will go to France to sign the agreement on June 1' for the implementation phase of the Africa coast to Europe undersea cable, Information Minister Ibrahim Ben Kargbo told selfnews. 'The submarine fiber optic cable will run through the west African coast to Europe and will provide improved and faster service to mobile phone and Internet users. It will drastically reduce the present cost of accessing the services.' He said government would repeal a 2006 law which mandated state-owned Sierra Leone Telecommunications (SierraTel) to operate the only international telecommunication gateway in the country. Such gateways are the route through which a country establishes calls and Internet connectivity with the rest of the world. The law forced mobile and Internet providers to shut down their respective gateways and use Sierratel for their international traffic. The west African nation of nearly six million people has only 1.5 million mobile phone users and only 25,000 Internet. 'The move to liberalise the gateway is one of the prerequisites for being hooked to the fiber project,' Kargbo said. 