Meta, Telecom Egypt Partake in Landing Longest Subsea Cable "2Africa" in Genoa

According to a press release, the alliance includes Telecom Egypt, China Mobile International, Meta, MTN GlobalConnect, France's Orange, STC, and Vodafone, African Telecommunications Company, and WIOCC.

This landing is the beginning of other landings in the coming months, as the cable will extend to about 46 sites when completed by 2024, with a goal of connecting about 3 billion people.

Notably, the 2Africa cable, announced in May 2020 including its Pearl extension, is designed to provide seamless international connectivity to some 3 billion people representing 36% of the world's population, linking three continents: Africa and Europe, and Asia.

With a length of 45,000 km, the 2Africa submarine cable becomes the longest subsea cable system ever implemented and contributes to enhancing the ability of communities to provide more and highly efficient internet-based services such as education, healthcare, and commercial activities, and achieve significant economic and social benefits as a result of this. Increasing international connectivity.

Vodafone International, which is responsible for landing the 2Africa submarine cable in Genoa, Italy, worked with Equinix to land the cable directly to its neutral data center and also worked with Retelit to provide the cable's terrestrial connection from the shore to the landing station.

As at all 2Africa subsea cable landing points, capacities will be available to service providers in Genoa on a fair and equitable basis, encouraging and supporting the development of a good internet usage ecosystem.

The allies has built a new ground track in collaboration with a local service provider in Italy to connect the Genoa cable landing station directly to other neutral data centers in Milan.

Meanwhile, 2Africa is continuing the preparation and manufacturing work of the cable for completion by 2024.