Submarine Cable Landing Station (Cox's Bazar)

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In April 2007 Bangladesh got connected to the submarine cable network as a member of the SEA-ME-WE-4 Consortium, as Cox's Bazar was selected as the landing station of the submarine cable.The commissioning of the new systems sets a landmark in the country's telecommunications and information communication technology sector as it will tremendously enhance the performance and capacity in this field.The consortium called South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe-4 was formed to implement the project for connecting the country with undersea optical fibre passing from Singapore through Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and a number of Middle-Eastern countries to finally land in France.The capacity is considered adequate for the next 10 years and the submarine cable has a life of 15 years.Bangladesh will have a 10-gigabyte data-transfer capacity a second, 68 times higher than the current speed.