Airtel Partners With Italy’s Sparkle to Expand Capacity in Submarine Cable

Sparkle will provide capacity on the Blue & Raman Submarine Cable Systems, connecting India to Italy. With this additional capacity, Airtel will further diversify its global network across multiple international submarine cable systems to serve the growing demand for data services in India and neighbouring countries. 

Sep 19, 2024

Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and a leading global operator, has signed an agreement with Airtel Business – the B2B arm of Bharti Airtel (Airtel), one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers – for additional capacity on a diversified low latency route between Asia and Europe.

Under the agreement, Sparkle will provide capacity on the Blue & Raman Submarine Cable Systems, which will connect India to Italy. With this additional capacity, Airtel will further diversify its global network across multiple international submarine cable systems to serve the growing demand for data services in India and neighbouring countries. 

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Sparkle has collaborated with Google and others to build Blue and Raman Submarine Cable Systems: Blue will connect Italy, France, Greece and Israel, while Raman will connect Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman and India. 

The two companies will also work together eyeing new business opportunities and projects in the Indian sub-continent, leveraging their respective cable infrastructures.

Vani Venkatesh, CEO of Global Business at Airtel Business, said: “We are happy to partner with Sparkle as we further consolidate our leadership in global connectivity. This partnership will further diversify our network with large integrated capacities to meet the ever-growing connectivity needs and data demand of our customers”.

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“We are very pleased with this agreement, based on the new solution provided by Blue & Raman, that supports the digital growth of the region and strengthens our historical partnership with Bharti Airtel”, added Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle.