Telecommunications in Seychelles

In the Seychelles, local and international telecommunications lines are operated by Cable & Wireless.

[1] The FEBA Seychelles station was decommissioned at the end of March 2003, and short wave broadcasts were transferred to other stations, many in the former Soviet Union.

[2] There are three Internet service providers in Seychelles: Atlas, Intelvision and Kokonet.

In 2009, following the conviction of the owners of The Pirate Bay for copyright infringement, the popular BitTorrent site was sold to a Seychelles-based company called Reservella Ltd.[3][4] In 2012, the 1,930-km Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) submarine cable landed at Beau Vallon, on the island of Mahé connecting the Seychelles with Tanzania.

[5] The SEAS cable is initially equipped at 20 Gbit/s with an ultimate design capacity of 320 Gbit/s.