Mauritania launched the coastal installation of its second submarine cable, with full deployment scheduled for August 2026 and service expected in January 2027. The cable will deliver an initial capacity of 200 Gbps, scalable to 12 Tbps, linking the country to Europe and South. Mauritania plans to install an additional 2,300 kilometers of optic fiber cable nationwide, Minister of Digital Transformation Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Louly announced on June 10th. The plan, unveiled at the launch of a fiber optic training program, aims to connect all wilayas and moughatas to fiber. The West Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (WARCIP) Project helped to increase the geographical reach of broadband networks and reduce the costs of communications services in Mauritania. Internet. Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Louly, the Mauritanian Minister of Digital Transformation, Innovation, and Administrative Modernization, announced that his department plans to install 2,300 kilometers of fiber optic cable across the country. This announcement was made on the sidelines of the launch of a. National optical fiber network project in Mauritania, whose implementation begun back in 2018 is now complete according to ZTE Corporation, a Chinese partially state-owned technology company that provides advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and enterprise technology solutions to.
