2Africa subsea cable reaches SA shores as it lands in in the Western Cape. connectivity UnderseaCable DataTraffic networking
in May 2020, the 2Africa consortium is comprised of China Mobile International, Meta , MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC.
MTN GlobalConnect has partnered with MTN SA to complete the landing on South African soil, it states. In addition, the Yzerfontein landing will support the 2Africa West cable, and the MTN SA landing station in Duynefontein will support the 2Africa East cable. “Data traffic across African markets is expected to grow between four- and five-fold over the next five years, so we need infrastructure and capacity to meet that level of growth and demand.”With Africa currently being the least connected continent − with only a quarter of its 1.3 billion people with access to the internet − new cable systems like 2Africa and Google's Equiano are expected to bring international capacity to the continent’s shores.
With a design capacity of up to 180Tbps on key parts of the system, the cable is intended to deliver much-needed internet capacity, reliability and improved internet performance across large parts of Africa, supplement the fast-growing capacity demand in the Middle East, and underpin the further growth of 4G, 5G and fixed broadband access for millions of people.
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