Pakistan has significantly expanded its international bandwidth with the deployment of the SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable system — a 19,200-km high-capacity fibre network stretching from Singapore to France.
The new system delivers more than 100 Tbps of total capacity and provides one of the lowest-latency Asia–Middle East–Europe routes, strengthening resilience and diversity across some of the world’s busiest data corridors.
The consortium behind the project includes Transworld Associates (Pakistan), Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, Bharti Airtel, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Mobily, Orange, Singtel, Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telekom Malaysia and Telin. SEA-ME-WE 6 offers more fibre pairs and double the capacity of earlier SEA-ME-WE systems, with geo-diversified trans-Egypt landings to improve fault tolerance.
Pakistan has been allocated 13.2 Tbps on the system, with 4 Tbps activated immediately—a major upgrade that will support cloud platforms, data centres, fintech, e-commerce, streaming, and the wider digital economy.
The new route enhances redundancy, reduces network ownership costs for operators, and strengthens Pakistan’s position within the global internet backbone.
