04 NOVEMBER 2025AlCircle.com
How submarine cables are connecting Africa and the world beneath the waves
Edited by : Aranya Mondal
7 min read
Below the ocean’s surface lies one of the world’s most important but least visible infrastructures — a vast network of fiber-optic cables stretching more than 1.48 million kilometres across the seabed as of early 2025. These undersea lines carry close to 99 per cent of all global data traffic, forming the foundation of the digital economy.
Every time someone makes a video call, sends a message, or completes an online transaction, that data races through this hidden network that silently binds continents together. Laid far beneath the waves, these cables have become the arteries of the modern world — fast, resilient, and absolutely indispensable.
The invisible road of the internet
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