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The 2025 Africa Telecommunications Map is out—and it pairs completely with this yr’s Submarine Cable Map.
The newest version of our Africa map depicts 77 cable programs related to Africa which are at present lively or below development.
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Cables Coming Quickly
Whereas used worldwide bandwidth has considerably elevated in Africa lately, the area has been stricken by submarine cable faults.
Luckily, plenty of new cables are deliberate within the area to assist present extra resilience for African connectivity. Hold studying to find out about a couple of of them.
(Please word that this isn’t an exhaustive listing, and challenges in cable deployment within the Pink Sea might result in delays.)
2Africa
Meta is main a brand new African submarine cable consortium mission deliberate to increase 45,000 km and hyperlink 33 nations in Africa, the Center East, Europe, and South Asia. Consortium companions embody China Cellular, MTN, Orange, Saudi Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, and WIOCC.
The primary segments of this cable entered service in 2024, however deployment of a crucial portion of the cable within the Pink Sea is delayed because of allowing and safety issues off Yemen.
View this cable on our interactive map.
Africa-1
The Africa-1 consortium is comprised of a number of telecom carriers together with Etisalat, Mobily, Pakistan Telecommunication Firm, and Telecom Egypt.
The cable will span from Europe to Pakistan by way of Egypt and join a number of nations in Africa and the Center East.
View this cable on our interactive map.
Raman
Google, in collaboration with Sparkle and OmanTel, plans to construct the Raman cable connecting Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, and India.
The cable will interconnect with Blue in Jordan for onward connectivity to Europe.
View this cable on our interactive map.
Medusa Submarine Cable System
Telecom operator AFR-IX Telecom is constructing a non-public cable crossing from the japanese to western Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic.
The Medusa system will join the southern European nations of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and Greece with the North African nations of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt.
View this cable on our interactive map.
India Europe Xpress (IEX)
This technique spans over 10,000 km, linking Italy, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, and India. IEX is a consortium cable initiated by Reliance Jio, China Cellular, and different undisclosed companions.
View this cable on our interactive map.
SeaMeWe-6 (SMW6)
This 19,200 km Europe-Asia cable system will join France to Singapore. The cable may have two landings in Africa—Egypt and Djibouti.
View this cable on our interactive map.
Umoja
In Could 2024, Google introduced this cable that can join the west coast of Australia to South Africa. From South Africa, the community will prolong north via Zimbabwe, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya. The terrestrial path shall be supplied by Liquid Applied sciences.
View this cable on our interactive map.
Transport Networks Analysis Service subscribers can discover extra details about the cables coming to Africa (and past) in our regularly-updated desk of Deliberate Submarine Cables. This useful resource accommodates possession, landings, value, and different crucial info.
And because of our beneficiant sponsor Telecom Egypt for making the 2025 Africa Telecommunications Map attainable.
