MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in conjunction with a consortium, have successfully landed a subsea cable that is 45,000 kilometers in length in South Africa.
This accomplishment is a part of MTN’s plans to construct a subsea network that will connect African countries to Europe and the Middle East.
According to MTN Group Chief Executive Ralph Mupita, “Data traffic across African markets is predicted to expand between four and five-fold over the next five years, so we require infrastructure and capacity to match that level of development and demand.”
The 2Africa submarine cable project, scheduled to launch in 2023, intends to construct a subsea cable infrastructure that will directly link nations along the African coast with Europe and the Middle East.
The subsea cable system will support the western and eastern sides of Africa once it is complete in 2023 and 2024, respectively, according to MTN subsidiary MTN GlobalConnect.
The landing for the cable was in the South African province of the Western Cape in the towns of Yzerfontein and Duynefontein.
MTN GlobalConnect, China Mobile International, Meta (META.O), Orange SA (ORAN.PA), Telecom Egypt, Vodafone (VOD.L), Mauritius-based infrastructure provider WIOCC, and Saudi Arabia’s center3 are also members of the consortium.
The majority of the data traffic on the internet, or 99% of it, is carried by submarine cables.
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