The international subsea cable sector is booming with over 450 submarine cables carrying about 95 per cent of all international telecoms service traffic, together with the ever-increasing data traffic generated by the hyperscale cloud companies and big streaming content providers.
TeleGeography said North Africa’s international connectivity to Europe is very close to 100 per cent but sub-Saharan Africa’s connectivity to Europe has dropped to about 60 per cent of total potential capacity. Though the estimated investment of Equiano cable is not public, Google informed that the facility is part of the $1 billion investment support for digital transformation across Africa.