SAIL is a (4×2 pair) submarine cable that links Cameroon (from the city of Kribi) to Brazil (city of Fortaleza) over an approximate distance of 6000 Km. Operational since September 2018 with a capacity of 32 Tbps, it enables the intercontinental transportation of traffic between the. Cameroon has long been presented as a hub in terms of telecom infrastructure in the Central African sub-region. The country is connected to five optical fiber submarine cables (SAT3, WACS, ACE, SAIL, and NCSCS). Yet it makes very little use of this equipment to develop its telecoms sector, as well. Incumbent operator CAMTEL will kick off the rollout of an additional 3,500 kilometers of terrestrial fiber across Cameroon in 2024. The company's network currently extends over 15,000 km. The incumbent operator Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) plans to install 3,500 km of additional optical fiber from 2024 across Cameroon. Government has officially handed over to Cameroon Telecommunications, CAMTEL, a 78-strand fibre optic cable deployed overhead in the Southern Interconnected Grid, SIG, along the Yaounde-Boumnyebel-Edea-Kribi-Douala-Limbe-Nkongsamba-Bafousssam-Bamenda segment.
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