SEA-ME-WE 6
Cable typeSubmarine Fibre-optic
PredecessorSEA-ME-WE, SEA-ME-WE 2, SEA-ME-WE 3, SEA-ME-WE 4, SEA-ME-WE 5
Design capacity120 Tbit/s
Area servedSouth East Asia, Middle East Asia, Western Europe
Owner(s)Consortium

South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) is an in-progress optical fibre submarine communications cable system that would carry telecommunications between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe. It is estimated to cost between $65 million and US$72 million.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Djibouti, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, France, Myanmar and Yemen are members of the SEA-ME-WE-6 Consortium.[7] It will run from Singapore to France and will have a bandwidth of 120 Tbps.[8] Once completed, It will be 19,200 km long.[9] Work on SEA-ME-WE 6 began in early 2022. It is expected to be in operation in the first quarter of 2025.[10][11] In Saudi Arabia, its landing point will be the Mobily landing station in the city of Yanbu.[12]

In May 2023, it was reported the U.S. government had objected to Chinese participation in the cable due to security concerns, and construction was moved from HMN Technologies (Huawei Marine Networks) to a U.S. consortium, SubCom.[13] SubCom includes Bharti Airtel, BSCCL, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Microsoft, Mobilink, Ni2i, Orange, Telekom, Singtel, Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telin, and Trans World Associates.

China Telecom and China Mobile, who had been forced to withdraw from the consortium, then joined with China Unicom to build a rival cable.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Islam, Muhammad Zahidul (2019-05-21). "Two Singapore firms show interest in 3rd submarine cable". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  2. ↑ Bannerman, Natalie (2019-01-18). "Bangladesh to build third subsea cable". Capacity Media. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  3. ↑ "Bangladesh Govt Decides for 3rd Submarine Cable". subtelforum.com. 2019-01-16. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  4. ↑ "Bangladesh to connect with 3rd submarine cable by 2021". banglatribune.com. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  5. ↑ "Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL)" (PDF). www.bsccl.com. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  6. ↑ "Govt to go for third submarine cable". The Daily Star. 2019-01-17. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  7. ↑ "Four Int'l Firms in Race to Build Third Submarine Cable". 6 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  8. ↑ Jahangir, Shamim (January 22, 2020). "Bangladesh to link with 3rd submarine cable next June". The Daily Sun. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  9. ↑ "SEA-ME-WE 6 - Submarine Networks".
  10. ↑ Baldock, Harry (2022-02-21). "Work begins on SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable". Totaltelecom. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  11. ↑ "Pakistan to Get New Submarine Cable SEA-ME-WE 6 with 100Tbps Speeds Through TWA". 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  12. ↑ "Mobily joins SEA-ME-WE-6 consortium to build undersea cable system". SatellitePro ME. 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  13. ↑ Stefano Kotsonis; Meghna Chakrabarti (May 22, 2023). "A new rivalry between the U.S. and China over the world's undersea cables". On Point (show transcript). Boston: WBUR.
  14. ↑ China to build $500m SEA-ME-WE-6 rival cable
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