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Meta, Bharti Airtel to bring 'world's longest' subsea cable to India

Last year, Meta Platforms Inc announced a new segment of 2Africa Pearls in collaboration with regional partners

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Sourabh Lele New Delhi
Bharti Airtel on Monday said it would partner Facebook parent Meta to jointly invest in global connectivity infrastructure that would extend a subsea cable — the 2Africa Pearls — to India.

Last year, Meta Platforms Inc announced a new segment of 2Africa Pearls in collaboration with regional partners.

When it was launched in 2020, the 37,000-km subsea cable connected 23 countries.

It has become one of the world’s longest subsea cable systems and aims to provide faster internet connectivity to almost 3 billion people. It would connect Africa, Europe, and Asia.

The extended 2Africa Pearls branch will include landing locations in Oman, UAE, Qatar,

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