The project was awarded to Mauritius Telecom and executed by PCCW Global with Huawei Marine as the installer.

The MARS cable is deployed with a no-burial laying methodology.

It consists of two fibre pairs and six submarine repeaters using the dense wavelength division multiplexing transmission technology.

The cable is expected to be ready for service in March 2019.

[needs update] Upon activation, the MARS cable would produce a 500-fold increase in bandwidth to Rodrigues, which has until now only been connected to the outside world through satellites.