2024 East Africa Submarine Cable Outage Report
The Importance of Submarine Cables Fibre optic submarine cables are critical communication infrastructures that form the backbone of international Internet connectivity. Currently,
The East African Cable System (EASSy) is a 10,000km undersea fibre optic cable system running from South Africa to Sudan. 2 terabits per second across two fiber pairs. Developed as a government-led. This map shows the reach of WIOCC's regional fibre optic...
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The Importance of Submarine Cables Fibre optic submarine cables are critical communication infrastructures that form the backbone of international Internet connectivity. Currently,
This map shows the reach of WIOCC''s regional fibre optic network, which reached 75,000-km during 2024. WIOCC''s regional network comprises the national transmission backbones of its shareholders
This is a list of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa. While submarine communications cables are used to connect countries and continents to the Internet, terrestrial fibre optic cables are used to
The southern part of the “West Africa” submarine fiber optic cable, affiliated with the Marocain Télécom Group, has been in service since July 2021 and connects Morocco to Ivory Coast,
The East African Cable System (EASSy) is a 10,000km undersea fibre optic cable system running from South Africa to Sudan. It became operational in 2010. EASSy has expanded internet access for 20
The fibre optic cable is spanning 2,420 kilometers extending from the Kenyan border into the South Sudan territory. The cable project signing took place during the first advisory council
By 2024, Africa''s operational terrestrial fiber stretched about 2.13 million kilometers. Even with all that fiber, the distribution is lopsided—only 30% of Africans live within 10 kilometers of a fiber
Starting from Mombasa, Kenya, this new infrastructure stretches over 1,000 km and connects Kenya with Uganda. It will also serve Rwanda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2Africa is a 45,000 km subsea cable system and the largest cable project in the world. It will be the first system to provide continuous capacity around the
Fibre Reach, Africa 2014 - 2024. Population within reach of operational fibre optic network (million) The landing of new submarine cables and expansion of
EASSy is a 10,000km submarine fibre-optic cable system deployed along the east and south coast of Africa to service the voice, data, video and internet needs of the region.
Chart 1: Route-Kms of Terrestrial Transmission Network, Africa 2009 - 2019 of the Africa Telecom Transmission Map 11 published by Hamilton Research for 2019/20, 10 the inventory of operational
High speed internet connectivity is fuelling the growth of tech hotspots like Nairobi and is vital if Africa''s growth is to continue. But is fibre the
2Africa connects 3 billion people over 33+ countries on 3 continents through a 45,000 km digital highway.Title Tag 2Africa deployment is underway. 2Africa is
The East African Marine System (TEAMS) is a submarine fiber-optic cable spanning approximately 5,000 kilometers, linking Mombasa in Kenya to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, with an
The 2Africa cable, which fully landed in 2024, has materially improved East African international bandwidth pricing. The PEACE Cable provides a second high-capacity Asia-to-Africa
The SEACOM cable is a 17,000-kilometre-long fibre-optic cable that spans across Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa. It was officially
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In 2011, the Malian government announced a 942 km fibre optic cable project linking Bamako-Gao-Kidal-Tin-Zaoutière to the Algerian border and Gap-Ansongo-Labezanga to the border of Niger. The
entering service per day. In addition, there was Africa''s total inventory of operational in June 2020 a further 119,496-km of fibre fibre optic network reached the optic network under construction, 95,057
African Undersea Cables Update Sept 2025 (Version 57) Please contact me if you''d like a copy of the map in SVG format. For a history of African undersea cables, have a look at animated gif history.