Hong Kong, November 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — China Mobile International Limited (CMI), along with seven global partners including Bayobab, center3, Meta, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Group, WIOCC, have Together they completed the core 2Africa submarine cable infrastructure (2Africa). Traveling around the African continent, connect 2Africa further expands on CMI’s global submarine cable layout and international connectivity resources, providing a robust digital infrastructure that accelerates digital economic development in Africa and the surrounding region.
As the first cable to continuously connect east and west Africa within As a single system, 2Africa follows an open access model. It spans more than 45,000 kilometers, connects more than 33 countries and territories in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, and has a designed capacity of 180Tbps. According to estimates, 2Africa is expected to contribute up to $36.9 billion to Africa’s GDP within the first two to three years of operations.
Following the commissioning of 2Africa’s key segments, CMI further optimized resource allocation along the Arabian Sea, the east and west coasts of Africa, and Europe. It also creates synergies with high-capacity submarine cables along Africa’s east and west coasts, such as PEACE and Equiano, allowing CMI to strengthen its multi-ring network covering Africa. 2Africa leverages global network resources such as Djibouti, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria, and submarine cable systems such as IAX-IEX to integrate high-capacity Eurasia-Africa bandwidth with local terrestrial cable and PoP expansion. The initiative aims to build a region-leading international submarine cable connection that will cover Africa and extend its reach into Asia-Pacific and Europe.
CMI will leverage 2Africa’s “high bandwidth and low latency” technology advantages to form strong synergies with the company’s existing cloud network capabilities, which include more than 100 submarine and terrestrial cables, more than 380 PoPs, and more than 1,270 data centers around the world. This robust infrastructure will enable CMI to provide its global carrier customers with high quality international leased lines, cloud leased lines and interconnection services covering multiple core African cities and extending into the African interior. Together with the mCloud cloud network integration portal with a one-stop integration package featuring “unified platform, one country, one price, one-click ordering, and end-to-end service,” CMI offers AI+ cloud network integration solutions for enterprises to reach markets and local partners in Africa and the Middle East. These solutions focus on key industries in Africa such as AI+ Smart Energy Mining and AI+ Smart Parks, propelling the region towards an AI-powered digital intelligence future.
CMI has been in the African market since 2015. The completion of the core 2Africa submarine cable infrastructure will further enrich the African region’s network resources and provide high-quality, reliable connectivity to critical sectors such as education, healthcare and financial services, thereby accelerating Africa’s digital transformation and improving the lives of communities across the continent.
Looking ahead, CMI will continue to leverage submarine cable projects like 2Africa to accelerate the deployment of new information infrastructure and new information service systems in Africa, contribute digital and intelligent solutions to the continent, and comprehensively support the vigorous development of Africa’s digital economy.
Source: China Mobile International
