TEFKROS

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TEFKROS is a domestic submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea along the coast of Cyprus.

It has landing points in:

It has a design transmission capacity of 4 x 2.5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 82 km. It started operation in 1994.

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