AFR-IX Telecom wins EUR 14.3 million EU grant for Medusa Africa cable branch
Spain's AFR-IX Telecom won EUR 14.3 million under the EU's Connecting Europe Facility Digital programme to extend the Medusa subsea cable system into Atlantic Africa. The grant funds a branch toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, alongside US feasibility study backing.
What it does not test. It does not establish that construction of the African branch has begun or that the cable will be completed as routed.
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