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Could Mauritius become an intercontinental digital hub?

Could Mauritius become an intercontinental digital hub?

Mauritius Telecom (MT), the country’s leading service provider across fixed and mobile, has unveiled what it calls a new vision set to accelerate the country’s digital transformation and position Mauritius as a world-class digital hub linking Africa and Asia.

Unveiled at the company’s flagship MT Connect event on 5 December 2025 by CEO Veemal Gungadin, the roadmap is apparently built what Mauritius Telecom calls strategic corridors.

One of these is a Connectivity Corridor with new submarine cables, expanded fibre coverage and 5G-Advanced. Another is an AI/Computer Corridor featuring GPU clusters, a Tier IV data centre expansion and sovereign cloud services.

Meanwhile an Innovation and Scaleup Corridor will help startups grow, and a Financial Corridor will help to scale the company’s my.t money service into a cross-border payment enabler.

The Ecofin news agency reports that this translates into a three-year investment of about US$434 million to modernise infrastructure, strengthen connectivity and develop advanced digital services.

It points out that Mauritius already has a strong network of submarine cables linking the island to Africa, Asia and Europe. As part of MT’s programme, two new submarine cables, T4 and SEACOM 2.0, will be added to the system and will significantly increase the current capacity of the existing SAFE cable before that cable is retired around 2027.

Demand for cloud services, digital content and connectivity continues to grow across Africa. The national Digital Mauritius 2030 strategy, a plan first published in 2018, has apparently already inspired significant progress within the country (population about 1.267 million) in the building of a digital economy.

According to the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) 2025 rankings, Mauritius ranks third in Africa for ICT development with a score of 86.3. It also holds a Tier 1 cybersecurity rating.



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