📋 Tender Overview
Mauritius Telecom plans to build a subsea cable connecting Africa, the Indian Ocean islands, and Asia.
The telco is in talks with operators including Reliance Jio and Orange to build the new cable.
The cable will be called T4 and will offer 1,000 times more capacity than the existing South Africa Far East (SAFE) cable the company has a stake in.
The T4 cable is expected to replace the 13,500 km (8,400 miles) SAFE cable and will run a similar route that spans South Africa, Madagascar, La Reunion, Mauritius, India, and Singapore.
Timelines and other details of the route were not shared.
