Kenya · Infrastructure
How much of Kenya’s reported undersea bandwidth was in use?
Kenya reported 24.161 terabits per second of undersea bandwidth capacity in 2025, with 14.383 terabits per second utilized. The amount in use reached a high even as its share of the available capacity fell.
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Capacity
Shared scale · 0 Tbps to 24.161 Tbps
Utilized
Shared scale · 0 Tbps to 24.161 Tbps
Switch between capacity and utilized bandwidth on a common scale. The difference is shown in the table.
Capacity grew faster than utilization in 2025
Undersea capacity increased from 22.154 Tbps in 2024 to 24.161 Tbps in 2025. Utilized bandwidth went from 14.142 to 14.383 Tbps. The smaller increase on the utilization side widened the difference by about 1.77 Tbps. Source 1
Utilization and the utilization rate can move in opposite directions
The utilized share fell from about 63.83% in 2024 to 59.53% in 2025 while the volume of utilized bandwidth reached a new high in the series. An increase in the denominator can lower the utilization rate even as used capacity rises. Source 1
The available capacity was below two terabits per second in 2015
The series began at 1.550 Tbps available and 0.854 Tbps utilized in 2015. It first showed over 10 Tbps available in 2021 and over 10 Tbps utilized in 2023. This separates the scale-up of available infrastructure from the growth of measured use. Source 1
A bandwidth rate is different from data transferred
Megabits per second express a data rate. These are reported undersea capacity and utilization figures, separate from satellite bandwidth, internet subscriptions or household speeds. The capacity difference does not show how much bandwidth could be redirected during the outage of a particular cable. Source 1