The country currently hosts around 17 international subsea cables across 14 distinct landing stations located in Mumbai, Chennai, Cochin, Tuticorin and Trivandrum.

Mar 10, 2025

India has the potential to become a dominant player in the global submarine cable network due to its strategic geographical location. The country currently hosts around 17 international subsea cables across 14 landing stations located in Mumbai, Cochin, Tuticorin, Chennai, and Trivandrum.

The total lit capacity and activated capacity of these cables stood at 138.606 terabits per second (Tbps) and 111.111 Tbps respectively, at the end of 2022.

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The Indian telecom operators involved in the submarine cable infrastructure include Tata Communications, Bharti Airtel, Global Cloud eXchange, Sify Technologies, and BSNL, operating various cable landing stations. Additionally, Vodafone and IOX are planning to construct a new cable landing station in Puducherry.

Bharti Airtel has earlier landed the new SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine telecom cable in Chennai. The company had already landed the cable in Mumbai on December 30, 2024. The 21,700 route km (Rkm) submarine cable system connects India to Singapore and France (Marseille) crossing Egypt through terrestrial cables. The cable landing, both in Mumbai and Chennai, will be fully integrated with Airtel’s data centre arm, Nxtra by Airtel.

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Meta too has announced a new 50,000 km undersea cable project ‘Waterworth’ to enhance digital connectivity between India and the US.

Subsea cable projects are the backbone of global digital infrastructure, resulting in more than 95 percent of intercontinental traffic and seamlessly enabling digital communication, video experiences, online transactions, and more.