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Pakistan has taken a major step in expanding its global internet footprint by joining the newly launched SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable system, a 19,200-km fiber route designed to speed up data traffic between Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The upgrade brings a faster, more resilient link for Pakistan as demand for cloud services, streaming, and digital payments continues to climb.
The SEA-ME-WE 6 system offers more than 100 Tbps of total capacity and creates one of the lowest-latency pathways between Singapore and France. It connects several key markets along the route and strengthens the region’s international bandwidth at a time of growing digital infrastructure needs.
The multinational consortium includes:
- Transworld Associates (Pakistan)
- Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company
- Bharti Airtel
- Dhiraagu
- Djibouti Telecom
- Mobily
- Orange
- Singtel
- Sri Lanka Telecom
- Telecom Egypt
- Telekom Malaysia
- Telin.
The new system delivers more fiber pairs and over double the capacity of earlier SEA-ME-WE cables. It also improves resilience across high-traffic Asia-Europe routes with geo-diversified crossings and landing points through Egypt.
The platform allows rapid scalability, better fault protection, and lower ownership costs for participating operators. It also strengthens the global internet backbone by adding a critical redundancy layer.
Pakistan has received a total allocation of 13.2 Tbps under the deployment, with 4 Tbps activated immediately. This boost expands the country’s international bandwidth and supports data centers, fintech platforms, cloud applications, e-commerce services, and the wider digital economy.
