{"id":917343,"date":"2025-03-28T07:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=917343"},"modified":"2025-03-28T07:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:20:31","slug":"airtel-lands-indias-20th-undersea-cable-to-connect-with-africa-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/28\/airtel-lands-indias-20th-undersea-cable-to-connect-with-africa-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel lands India&#8217;s 20th undersea cable to connect with Africa, Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Monday announced landing in Mumbai a subsea cable that will connect India to Africa and Europe via West Asia. It is part of the 2Africa system, which will be the world&#8217;s longest subsea cable system when completed, spanning over 45,000 km. <\/p>\n<p>The 2Africa Pearls that Airtel announced is India\u2019s 20th undersea cable and it will have a data transfer rate of 100 terabits per second (Tbps). Airtel has partnered with Meta, the social media giant, and center3, a subsidiary of the Saudi Telecommunications Company, for laying the cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Monday announced landing in Mumbai a subsea cable that will connect India to Africa and Europe via West Asia. It is part of the 2Africa system, which will be the world&#8217;s longest subsea cable system when completed, spanning over 45,000 km. The 2Africa Pearls that Airtel announced is India\u2019s 20th undersea cable and it will have a data transfer rate of 100 terabits per second (Tbps). Airtel has partnered with Meta, the social media giant, and center3, a subsidiary of the Saudi Telecommunications Company, for laying the cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}