On 2 July 2025, Telecom Egypt announced the successful completion of the two landings of the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE-6) submarine cable system in Egypt: one in Port Said on the Mediterranean coast, and the other in Ras Ghareb on the Red Sea. Telecom Egypt facilitated the connection between the two coastal landing points with two diverse and resilient terrestrial fibre optic routes across Egypt (see for example Egypt: Telecom Egypt Inaugurates Red2Med Submarine And Terrestrial Fibre Route). With a length of 21,700 km, SEA-ME-WE-6 has a design capacity of 126 Tbps and will run from France (Marseille) to Singapore (Tuas) with landings in Egypt (Port Said, Ras Ghareb), Saudi Arabia (Yanbu), Djibouti (Djibouti City), Pakistan (Karachi), India (Chennai, Mumbai), Maldives (Hulhumale), Sri Lanka (Matara), Bangladesh (Cox’s Bazar) and Malaysia (Morib). This will replace the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable which entered service in 1999 had a design capacity of 4.6 Tbps and was retired after 25 years of service in December 2024. Meanwhile both the SEA-ME-WE-4 cable which entered service in 2005 has a capacity of 4.6 Tbps, and the SEA-ME-WE-5 cable which entered service in 2016 has a capacity of 36.6 Tbps, are still in service.
Source: Telecom Egypt
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