Bharti Airtel, one of the largest telecom service providers in India, has successfully landed the 2Africa Pearls cable in Mumbai, establishing a connection between India, Africa, and Europe via the Middle East. This initiative is in collaboration with the investors of 2Africa Pearls, center3 and Meta.
The 2Africa Pearls cable is part of the broader 2Africa cable system, which, upon completion, will become the longest subsea cable system in the world, stretching over 45,000 kilometers and linking Asia with Africa and Europe through the Middle East. The 2Africa Pearls cable will provide India with more than 100Tbps (terabits per second) of international bandwidth.
Sharat Sinha, Director & CEO – Airtel Business, said, “We are thrilled to bring the 2Africa Pearls cable to India adding to our network resilience. We are aggressively diversifying our global network and recently landed the SEA-WE-ME-6 cable in Chennai and Mumbai. We will continue investing in global cable systems and future-proof our network with an aim to deliver high uptime, reliability, and superior quality network to our customers”.
The 2Africa cable system is spearheaded by a consortium that includes Bayobab, center3, China Mobile International, Meta, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Group, and WIOCC, with Alcatel Submarine Networks tasked with the cable’s manufacturing and installation.
It is worth noting that Airtel had previously connected the SEA-ME-WE6 cable in Mumbai and Chennai. In a recent press release, the company announced that its global network covers 400,000 route kilometers across 50 countries and five continents. Airtel has invested in 34 cables worldwide, with recent additions such as 2Africa, Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2), and Equiano.
In addition to these cables linking India to major regions like APAC, Europe, the Middle East, and the US, Airtel’s global subsea network investments encompass significant cable systems including the i2i Cable Network (i2icn), Europe India Gateway (EIG), IMEWE, SEA-ME-WE-4, AAG, Unity, EASSy, Gulf Bridge International (GBI), and the Middle East North Africa Submarine Cable (MENA Cable), among others.
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