A Mauritian telecommunications infrastructure provider has completed the first submarine cable project on Lake Tanganyika, helping to improve broadband connectivity to the vast South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mauritius–Rodrigues Submarine Cable (MARS) is the first optical fiber submarine communications cable linking Mauritius to Rodrigues. It was commissioned in November 2017 by the Government of Mauritius. The project was awarded to Mauritius Telecom and executed by PCCW Global with Huawei Marine. The Republic of Mauritius is a small island state with an upper middle income economy and a population of 1. The T3 cable system will be Mauritius Telecom's third international subsea cable, offering Mauritians a more reliable, robust and redundant network Spanning approximately 3200km, the T3 cable. Mauritius Telecom, the largest Internet service provider and cellular service distributor in Mauritius, announced on Friday, March 24, that it has laid the T3 fiber optic submarine cable in Mauritius.
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