Richard Schumacher, MD of digital infrastructure at Seacom When a Belize-flagged, UK-registered cargo ship called the Rubymar was struck by a Houthi missile in the Red Sea in February 2024, it began to drift. With its anchor down in shallow water, it severed three of the region’s subsea cables before sinking on 2 March –…
Image for illustration purposes only Digital infrastructure and managed services provider Seacom has delivered a sharp improvement in earnings after the subsea cable disruptions that weighed on results in the prior period fell away. In interim results for the six months to 31 December 2025, released on Wednesday, Remgro – which holds an effective 30%…
In this episode of ITWeb TV, Samuel Mungadze, ITWeb Africa editor, speaks to Prenesh Padayachee, group chief digital infrastructure officer at Seacom, about Africa’s hyperscale economy and connectivity. In today’s hyperscale economy, connectivity is no longer sufficient. Enterprises and global cloud providers want infrastructure that is not only high-performing and scalable, but also vendor-neutral, interoperable…
Flenk Mnisi, acting chief operating officer of Sentech and Anton Jooste, MD of digital services for South Africa at Seacom. Submarine cable operator Seacom and signal distributor Sentech have signed a memorandum of understanding to accelerate the growth of small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa’s telecommunications sector. The agreement, signed at Seacom’s…
Seacom last week announced that it plans to build one of the highest-capacity subsea broadband cable systems the world has ever seen. Dubbed Seacom 2.0, the cable system – which will have an expected design capacity of a staggering 2 000Tbit/s – will be larger than the company’s original system, which brought high-speed connectivity to…
Alpheus Mangale, group CEO of Seacom. Pan-African submarine internet cable operator Seacom has launched a new subsea cable system across the Indian Ocean Basin, Middle East, Mediterranean and Southern Europe. Unveiled at Submarine Networks World 2025, in Singapore, Seacom says the project marks a leap toward securing Africa’s role in the global digital economy, while…
