Al Safat, Kuwait

Al Safat, Kuwait is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in Kuwait. One international cable system comes ashore here, and together they reach 13 other countries across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Why cable lands at Al Safat

Safat Square is a major historical commercial square in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Most of the 1 systems here are domestic; the exception reaches United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, making Al Safat a stepping stone that carries the region's traffic off Kuwait's national grid toward the wider network.

Where its cables reach

• FALCON connects it to Africa (Egypt and Sudan).
• FALCON connects it to the Middle East (including United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Oman).
• FALCON connects it to Asia (India, Sri Lanka and Maldives).

The systems in detail

Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: FALCON (10,300 km and in service since 2006). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.

What the concentration means for resilience

A single system lands here, so this point is a genuine dependency rather than a redundant one. The exposure is specific: the link to Africa and Asia rests on a single cable, with no sibling landing alongside it. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.

What our monitoring has recorded

GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 127 route anomalies across 71 cable systems worldwide. None of the systems landing here has triggered a route anomaly in that window, a stability signal in its own right for a hub of this size. This section updates automatically the moment that changes, as it already has for the 71 other systems flagged across our coverage.

Who depends on it

The largest access networks in Kuwait sit behind this coastal capacity: Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P. (37.6% of users), Kuwait Telecommunications Company K.S.C.C. (31% of users), NATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY K.S.C.P. (30% of users) and Fast Communication Company Ltd (2.2% of users). See the full national picture for Kuwait.

The coast around Al Safat

This landing point is part of a wider shoreline of connectivity. Within roughly 200 kilometres, the coast also hosts Kuwait City (0 km away, 6 cable systems), Al Faw (82 km away, 5 cable systems) and Soroosh Platform (149 km away, 2 cable systems). Each of these sites brings its own cables ashore, and together they define how much independent capacity, and how much redundancy, this stretch of Kuwait really has: if one landing fails or a cable needs maintenance, traffic can often be carried through a neighbour.

In short, Al Safat, Kuwait carries international traffic for Kuwait across 1 independent cable system reaching 13 countries on 3 continents, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.