10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)
The Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) became Seychelles’ first major undersea cable, linking the islands to continental Africa in the early 2010s and ending reliance on satellites. In August 2021, Intelvision secured support to lease a branch of the 2Africa submarine cable, enabling 600 Gbps of international capacity and added redundancy. Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS) began a nationwide Fibre-to-the-Home rollout in 2017, aiming to replace all copper lines with fiber by 2020. By late 2024, Cable & Wireless Seychelles launched “GigaNet,” Africa’s first 10 Gbps broadband service, using 50G-PON technology. International bandwidth available to Seychelles’ ISPs grew from about