10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)
Seychelles may be a remote Indian Ocean archipelago, but it boasts surprisingly advanced internet infrastructure. The country’s connectivity journey leapt forward with the installation of submarine fiber-optic cables. The first major undersea cable, the Seychelles East Africa System, connected the islands to continental Africa in the early 2010s, ending reliance on slow, costly satellites. In August 2021, a second submarine link was secured when Intelvision obtained support to lease a branch of the massive 2Africa submarine cable being built by Vodafone Ifc Developingtelecoms. This new cable, offering 600 Gbps of international capacity, complements SEAS to boost redundancy and lower bandwidth costs Developingtelecoms. With these cables as a backbone, Seychelles has greatly expanded its domestic fiber network across the main islands.
