The two companies, along with Saudi Telecommunication Company, will bring the world's longest subsea cable system - 2Africa Pearls - to India, at Airtel's landing station in Mumbai.
Subsea cable infrastructure is essential to connect the world digitally as without this, data flows between countries over the internet will not be possible.
In 2020, Meta (then called Facebook) had announced investments in building internet infrastructure in Africa through the 2Africa subsea cable. The cable system was later extended to connect 33 countries across Africa, Europe, and Asia.
This story is from the December 06, 2022 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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