Tétouan, Morocco

Tétouan, Morocco is a submarine cable landing point in Morocco (coordinates 35.5659°, -5.3918°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Morocco's international connectivity infrastructure.

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Tétouan, Morocco

Cables landing at Tétouan, Morocco are operated by 3 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AFRIX Telecom, Maroc Telecom, Telxius. 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 Tétouan, Morocco, international traffic can reach 13 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Libya, Malta and 5 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Tétouan, Morocco 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

• Medusa Submarine Cable System (2026) — Medusa is a 8,760 km submarine cable system that lights up in 2026 and links the Mediterranean rim. It lands in a remarkable eighteen stations across thirteen countries — from Carcavelos and Sesimbra on the Portuguese Atlantic, along the Spanish Mediterranean coast at Barcelona, through Marseille in France and Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, to Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Bizerte, Benghazi, Misuratah, Tr Read more →
• Est-Tet (1994) — Est-Tet is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Spain and Morocco. Landing at Estepona, Tétouan, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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