Angolan subsea cable operator Angola Cables has signed a strategic partnership with United States fibre provider Uniti Wholesale, integrating its SACS, MONET and WACS submarine systems with Uniti’s terrestrial network across more than 300 US metro markets.
The two companies announced the agreement in Washington DC on 20 May 2026. Uniti’s domestic backbone spans roughly 386,000 kilometres of fibre route infrastructure, which the partnership will pair with Angola Cables’ Atlantic-facing submarine systems.
Three Atlantic subsea systems plus a US backbone
Angola Cables operates the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) between Angola and Brazil, the MONET cable between the United States and Brazil, and is a member of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) along the west coast of Africa. Connecting all three to Uniti’s US terrestrial footprint creates a direct routing option between West Africa, South America and US metropolitan markets without transiting Europe.
The partnership extends Angola Cables’ earlier moves to broaden distribution: in May 2025, the operator joined the DE-CIX premium reseller programme, opening a path for African customers to reach European and Middle Eastern peering fabrics.
What the joint footprint enables
Ângelo Gama, chief executive of Angola Cables, said the partnership will give wholesale customers, enterprises, content providers and carriers across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe a direct line into Uniti’s nationwide US footprint.
“This direct connectivity will be especially beneficial for companies operating in the upstream oil and gas sector, who require stable and secure digital connectivity to share sensitive and proprietary data about their oil and gas exploration operations off the coast of Africa or South America,” Gama said. He cited aviation, transport, logistics, and healthcare among the other target verticals.
Capacity, services and the AI demand driver
The agreement also extends the service catalogue available across the joint footprint. The partners cite high-bandwidth wave services, IP transit, local access, dark fibre and colocation among the offerings they plan to scale, in light of rising demand for digital services, over-the-top content, cloud computing and AI workloads.
The deal positions Angola Cables more visibly in the transatlantic carrier market at a time when African content and cloud operators are seeking alternative routes to bypass congested European hubs. For Uniti, the partnership opens its US backbone to traffic originating outside its North American footprint and beyond its existing carrier customer base.
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