Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh is a submarine cable landing point in Bangladesh (coordinates 21.4292°, 91.9949°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Bangladesh's international connectivity infrastructure.

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Cables landing at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh are operated by 25 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Algerie Telecom, Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), Bharti Airtel, China Unicom, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Microsoft, Mobily, National Telecom, and 15 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, international traffic can reach 18 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, France, India, Italy, Malaysia and 10 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• SeaMeWe-6 (2026) — SEA-ME-WE 6 is the sixth submarine cable in a series that has been laying fibre between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe since 1985. The original SEA-ME-WE (just SEA-ME-WE, no number) was commissioned in 1985 as one of the earliest long-haul submarine cables in the modern sense. SEA-ME-WE 2 followed in 1994, SEA-ME-WE 3 in 1999, SEA-ME-WE 4 in 2005, SEA-ME-WE 5 in 2016. Read more →
• SeaMeWe-4 (2005) — SeaMeWe-4 is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 14 countries across North Africa, South Asia, Middle East. With 16 landing points — including Alexandria, Annaba, Bizerte, Chennai, Colombo, and 11 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.