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Meta’s 2Africa Cable Lands in MTN’s South African Cable Landing Stations

Justice Godfrey Okamgba by Justice Godfrey Okamgba
December 14, 2022
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The Meta-led 2Africa cable has made a landing in two MTN cable landing stations (CLS) in South Africa. The arrival of the 2Africa cable in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, South Africa, was announced this week by MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect. Both places are on the western coast of South Africa, north of Cape Town.

TechEconomy understands that Meta, along with Telecom Egypt, China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Vodafone, and the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) announced the 2Africa cable back in 2020. 

At 45,000km, it is the world’s largest subsea cable and is set to connect 33 locations at 46 locations across Africa, Europe, and Asia once it’s complete.

The cable is landing at MTN facilities in five countries, including Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Ghana in addition to the two in South Africa. This is the first of a series of six landings with MTN.

The 2Africa West cable will be supported by the Yzerfontein landing, which is scheduled to go live in 2023, while the 2Africa East cable will be supported by the MTN South Africa landing station in Duynefontein, which is scheduled to go live in 2024.

“Strategic collaborations like the one we have with the 2Africa consortium will help us accelerate and deepen internet usage and socio-economic advancement across the African continent,” MTN Group President and CEO Ralph Mupita said.

Data traffic across African markets is expected to grow between four- and five-fold over the next 5 years, so we need infrastructure and capacity to meet that level of growth and demand”.

MTN GlobalConnect CEO Frédéric Schepens added: “MTN GlobalConnect is pleased to participate in this bold 2Africa subsea cable project. 

The initiative complements our terrestrial fiber strategy to connect African countries to each other and the rest of the world. 

We are building scale infrastructure assets to meet the explosive growth in data traffic and accelerate the digital economy on the continent, by creating a pan-African fiber railroad driving affordable connectivity.”

2Africa’s cable recently landed in Barcelona at AFR-IX Telecom’s new CLS. It also recently landed at Ras Ghareb, Egypt in partnership with Telecom Egypt, which said another landing point is expected in Port Said in the Mediterranean Sea in the coming months. It has also previously landed in Genoa, Italy; and Djibouti City, Djibouti.

The cable’s Middle East & Asia extension, known as 2Africa Pearls, is set to land at Airtel’s CLS in Mumbai, India.

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