Connecting Somalia to the world
Dalkom owns and operates a submarine cable landing station, a satellite teleport, a Tier III data centre and the fibre that links them, all on one site in Mogadishu.
Somali data, held in Somalia
Banks, ministries and payment platforms can keep their data in the country, in a carrier-neutral facility cross-connected to four submarine cable systems.
Satellite coverage beyond the fibre
Our C- and Ku-band teleport serves districts that fibre does not yet reach. The same site receives Earth observation data used for crop monitoring, flood mapping and vessel tracking.
In the same place since 2003, doing the same thing
Dalkom has carried Somalia’s international traffic since 2003, including the years when almost nobody else would put capital equipment in Mogadishu. The compound on Airport Road is not a sales office. It is the landing station, the teleport, the data centre and the people who keep them running.
Integrated infrastructure, one operator
The landing station, satellite teleport, data centre and national backbone are ours, on one compound. When a service fails, the decision about what to restore first is made in this building.
Experienced technical teams, in country
Operations are staffed around the clock in Mogadishu by engineers who have run this equipment for years. Nothing is monitored from a hub in another time zone.
Four things we own, on one compound
Almost every provider in this market depends on at least one of these belonging to somebody else. Ours sit on the same site in Mogadishu, so there is one company fewer in every path and one handover fewer in every fault.
Submarine Cables
Our own cable landing station in Mogadishu, where the country’s international capacity comes ashore. EASSy and 2Africa are held directly; WACS and EIG are reached through our shareholding in WIOCC. We state the difference because it matters when you are designing diversity.
Satellite Teleport
C- and Ku-band, operated from the same ground as the landing station. Most satellite service sold into Somalia is resold from a hub in another country. Ours is here, so satellite traffic hands onto subsea capacity inside one building, under one operations team.
Data Centre
One megawatt of Tier III capacity, expandable to two, carrier-neutral, concurrently maintainable, cross-connected to four submarine systems in the same building. It is the reason a Somali institution can now meet its data protection obligations without choosing between an office cupboard and another continent.
Backbone & Metro
Landing a cable is the easy half. Carrying what comes ashore to the operators, banks, ministries and broadcasters who need it is the hard half, in a country where most of the route has to be built rather than leased. Protected fibre rings, our own autonomous system, and reach onward across four regional footprints.
Seven solutions, all running on what we own
Grouped by the physical layer each one runs on: fibre, data centre and satellite.
Capacity on ground we built
International and national capacity carried on our own landing station, backbone and metro rings, sold wholesale to operators, or delivered as a managed circuit to a building.
Somali data, held in Somalia
One megawatt of carrier-neutral Tier III capacity, expandable to two, cross-connected to four submarine systems in the same building. Your data stays in Somalia because the rack is in Somalia.
Where the ground runs out
Run from our own teleport in Mogadishu, carrying voice and data beyond the fibre, and turning what satellites see into decisions that can be acted on here.
Not sure which one
Tell us the problem. We will name the service.
Satellite Communications
Fibre reaches a minority of Somalia’s inhabited area. Our teleport is in Mogadishu, not in another country, so the hop from your terminal to the internet stays inside one operator’s network and one fault ticket.
See the service →Colocation, Cloud & Data Residency
Until this data centre existed, keeping citizen or customer records in Somalia meant a server in an office cupboard. Carrier-neutral racks with 2N power and cross-connect to four cable systems make residency an engineering decision rather than a compromise.
See the service →Telecom Backhaul & Wholesale
You are buying from the party that owns the landing station, not from a reseller sitting between you and it. Fewer hands on the circuit, and a diversity story you can actually verify against four separate systems.
See the service →Enterprise Connectivity
Managed circuits between offices, compounds and branches, on protected metro rings rather than a single path, maintained by engineers based in the same city.
See the service →Earth Observation & Geospatial Intelligence
Cropland, floodwater, coastline, vessels, unplanned settlement, road and pipeline condition, observed from orbit and delivered as something a ministry or an insurer can act on, not as a raw scene you still have to process.
See the service →Broadband Infrastructure
The last mile is where most Somali networks stop. We design, build and hand over the access layer, or run it for you on our network, with the upstream capacity already in place behind it.
See the service →Ground Segment as a Service
A site on the Horn of Africa with power, fibre to four submarine systems and staff on shift, available to satellite operators who need a station in this footprint without building one.
See the service →Where the network is the operation
An aircraft that has to be talked to. A vessel that has to be found. A payment that has to settle. A broadcast that has to go out. In these places a connectivity failure is the incident itself.
Aviation
Ground-to-air communications, airfield connectivity and the resilience an air navigation service is judged on.
Maritime & Fisheries
Vessel connectivity, coastal awareness and the observation data behind licensing and enforcement.
Financial Services
Branch and agent connectivity, plus in-country hosting for institutions that must keep records here.
Operators & ISPs
Wholesale capacity, backhaul and colocation bought directly from the landing station, not through a reseller.
Government & Public Sector
Ministry connectivity and sovereign hosting, with the compliance position documented rather than asserted.
Humanitarian & Development
Field connectivity that deploys in days, and observation data for drought, flood and displacement response.
Broadcast & Media
Contribution and distribution paths over satellite and fibre, sized for live output rather than best effort.
Three differences you only notice on a bad day
Anyone can sell you a circuit while it is working. What separates providers is what happens in the hour after it stops.
OwnershipYour fault is ours to fix
When the path belongs to somebody else, your outage becomes a conversation between two companies and you are not in the room. Landing station, backbone, teleport and data centre are all ours, so we decide how and when service is restored.
PresenceThe engineers are here
Our operations centre is in Mogadishu and staffed around the clock by people who live in the city. Nobody is dispatched from a regional hub, and nobody needs a visa to look at your equipment.
AccountabilityWhat we sign, we deliver
Every service comes with a delivery date, a service level and a named engineer. Where a capability is still being commissioned, its date is written into the proposal, and the design you approve is the network you receive.
Somali data can now stay in Somalia
The country’s data protection framework places real obligations on the institutions holding citizen and customer records. Until recently, meeting them meant choosing between a server in an office cupboard and a data centre on another continent. It no longer does.
Tell us what has to work
Describe the operation and what failure looks like for it. Our engineers will come back with a design and a delivery date, or tell you plainly if we are not the right company for it.