New Submarine Comms Cable to Serve Iraq

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New Submarine Comms Cable to Serve Iraq

Qatar-primarily based Ooredoo group has partnered with France’s Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to construct the Fibre in Gulf (FIG) submarine cable.

The cable, connecting Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, may have a potential of up to 720Tbps with 24 fibre pairs.

Ooredoo stated in a declaration that the venture will provide all GCC countries a low latency, shorter and cozy route to a brand new hall connecting Europe.

Ooredoo is the figure employer of Iraqi cellular telephone organization Asiacell.