Fibre & Connectivity
Capacity from the party that lands it
International transit, capacity and national backhaul, bought directly from the operator of the landing station rather than from a reseller standing in front of it. Somalia’s National Communications Authority names Dalkom as the landing station operator for EASSy and 2Africa at Mogadishu — which is why the buyers on this page sit in Nairobi, Dubai, London and Seattle as often as in Mogadishu.
4Submarine systems reachable from our station
Own ASOur own autonomous system and direct peering
RingsProtected national and metro backhaul
24/7Operations centre in Mogadishu
Who buys this
The traffic is Somali. The buyer usually is not.
What every customer on this page has in common is not where they are registered. It is that their traffic has to reach Somalia, and the shortest commercial path to that is the company that owns the ground it lands on.
01
International carriers & wholesale
- What they buy
- Capacity and IP transit into Somalia, held on systems we operate or hold through WIOCC, to sell on or to extend their own reach
- What they ask first
- Which system carries it, where the alternate diverges, and what the restoration order is
- Hand-off
- Our meet-me room in Mogadishu, or an agreed point on the systems we hold — tell us where you need it and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach it
02
Content, cloud & CDN
- What they buy
- Transit, cross-connect and rack space to put a cache or a node inside the country instead of serving Somali users from Europe
- Why it is worth it
- Every request served locally is a round trip that does not cross a subsea cable, on a population with a young median age and rising mobile data use
- What we will not claim
- Somalia does not justify a cloud region. It justifies a cache, a node and a peering relationship — and we will say so rather than sell you a region
03
Somali operators & ISPs
- What they buy
- Transit, international capacity and national backhaul, with one fewer intermediary between them and the beach manhole
- What they ask first
- Whether the diversity they are already paying for is real, and how much margin sits in the chain above them
- Escalation
- Same city, same time zone, no border between the fault and the person who can fix it
04
Enterprises, UN agencies & international NGOs
- What they buy
- Managed international connectivity for offices, compounds and field sites, rather than raw wholesale capacity
- What they ask first
- Procurement and duty-of-care questions: contracting entity, invoicing, security of the compound, and how fast a new site can be turned up
- Honest limit
- Where fibre has not been built, this becomes a satellite conversation — and we will move it there rather than quote a circuit we cannot deliver
05
Government & development institutions
- What they buy
- Capacity, backhaul and in-country hosting for national systems and donor-funded programmes
- What they ask first
- Where the data physically sits, who holds the licence, and whether the operator is accountable under Somali law
- Basis
- Licensed in Somalia, operating in Somalia, answerable in Somalia — the questions have the same answer at every level
The product
What is actually on the price list
Written as an engineer would need it rather than as a brochure would phrase it. Commercial terms depend on volume, term and hand-off point, so those are a conversation.
01
IP transit
- What it is
- Internet transit on our own autonomous system, with direct peering rather than a chain of upstreams
- Hand-off
- At our meet-me room, or delivered to your premises over our backhaul
- Why from us
- Routing decisions are made by people you can reach, in the same time zone
02
International capacity
- What it is
- Capacity across EASSy, 2Africa, WACS and EIG, on physically separate routes
- Basis
- EASSy and 2Africa held directly; WACS and EIG through our WIOCC shareholding
- Why it matters
- You can be shown which system carries your service and what the alternate is
03
National & metro backhaul
- What it is
- Carrying traffic from the landing station to where your network starts
- Topology
- Protected rings rather than point-to-point spurs, where the route exists
- Build
- Where it does not exist yet, we will quote the build rather than pretend
04
Service & support
- Monitoring
- Circuits watched from our own operations centre, alerting agreed in advance
- Response
- Engineers based in Mogadishu, not dispatched from a regional hub
- Escalation
- One company for the whole path, so escalation does not cross a border
The difference
Identical on the quotation. Not identical at 3am.
Through an intermediary
You are two companies away from the fault
- The party you pay does not control the equipment your traffic lands on
- Restoration priority is set by a contract you have never seen
- Diverse routes can share a duct, a station or a backhaul leg without anyone saying so
- Each hand-off adds margin, latency in the escalation, and a competing account of events
Direct from the landing party
The restoration decision is ours
- Station, meet-me room, backbone and teleport all under one operator
- The physical path of your service can be shown to you, with its alternates
- Diversity verifiable against four systems on genuinely separate routes
- One engineering team, in country, answering for the whole thing
Wholesale enquiries
Send the ports, the volume and what has to stay separate
We will come back with which system carries what, where the routes genuinely diverge, what is available today and what would need building. Enquiries from outside Somalia are the normal case, not the exception.