Supply chain / Subsea cables
2Africa subsea cable
A Meta-led submarine cable system around Africa linking Africa, Europe and, with its Pearls segment, parts of the Middle East and South Asia.
- Type
- Programme
- Where it sits
- Adds international capacity to landing stations across Africa, which bears on where data centres and edge sites can be reached.
- Constraint
- Meta's November 2025 post says the Pearls segment was still scheduled to go live in 2026, so its status should be rechecked.
- Maturity
- In use or open for access
What we checked
- Meta's November 2025 post says the core system is complete and describes the whole system as about 45,000 km. (source)
- The Pearls segment adds landings in the Gulf states, Pakistan, India and others; Meta's 2021 announcement said the full system would connect 33 countries. (source)
Written by ComputeFinder from public pages on 2 October 2026. Company statements are the company's own, not independently checked, and reported items are marked as such. Not yet reviewed line by line by a second person. If something is wrong, tell us.