Seacom Unveils New Branding as It Plans for Africa’s Future

Seacom unveils new branding as it plans for Africa’s future

Kathy Gibson reports – Seacom, which pioneered Africa’s submarine cable boom 16 years ago, is planning a major new undersea network. Seacom 2.0, due to be completed by 2029, is designed to carry the data traffic that will be generated by Africa’s embrace of digitisation and artificial intelligence (AI). By 2030, networks are expected to carry over 10-billion AI agents, and Seacom 2.0 aims to serve as the backbone for this AI-driven revolution. L…

When Cables Decide Power: How Africa’s Undersea Networks Are Rewriting Digital Geography

The shore outside Mombasa looks ordinary enough — tide-churned, sun-glared, restless with trade wind. But just offshore, beneath the surface, runs one of the most consequential systems on Earth. Armored fiber-optic lines — thin as a garden hose, buried beneath the sand — carry most of the continent’s digital life. They land quietly in sealed … The post Beneath the Waves, a New Race for Africa’s Internet Future appeared first on TechTrendsKE.