Telecom operator Bharti Airtel Ltd on Monday (February 17) said it has successfully landed the SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6) submarine cable in Chennai. This follows the cable’s earlier landing in Mumbai on December 30, 2024.

The 21,700 Rkm subsea cable, engineered and installed by SubCom, links India with Singapore and France (Marseille) while traversing Egypt through terrestrial cables. The system is designed to enhance connectivity between Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, providing high-capacity, low-latency data transmission.

With this, Airtel has further enhanced its network presence with diversified global capacity in the submarine cable system. The cable landing, both in Mumbai and Chennai, will be fully integrated with Airtel’s data centre arm, Nxtra by Airtel, at its facilities in the respective cities to enable global hyperscalers and businesses in the country to access international connectivity and data centre services seamlessly.

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Sharat Sinha, Director and CEO of Airtel Business, said, “Airtel we strive to provide the best in class services to our customers and this new investment and milestone would further improve our secure, diverse and scalable global network.

We are delighted to further strengthen our global connectivity by landing one of the largest cable systems into our facilities. This complements our existing network strength of 400,000 Rkms across 50 countries.”

As a key member of the consortium of the SEA-ME-WE-6 cable system, Airtel has invested in the core cable and has additionally co-built a private network of four Fiber Pairs between Singapore, Chennai and Mumbai. This cable system will bring a whopping 220 TBPs of global capacity to India.

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Airtel’s global network spans five continents. The company has investments in 34 cables globally with some of the recent ones including 2Africa, Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) and Equiano.

Apart from these cables that connect India to key regions like APAC, Europe, the Middle East and US, Airtel’s global subsea network investments also include large cable systems like i2i Cable Network (i2icn), Europe India Gateway (EIG), IMEWE, SEA-ME-WE-4, AAG, Unity, EASSy, Gulf Bridge International (GBI) and Middle East North Africa Submarine Cable (MENA Cable) amongst many others.

Shares of Bharti Airtel Ltd ended at ₹1,675.55, down by ₹41.60, or 2.42% on the BSE.

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