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Telecom Egypt and Hungary’s 4IG have announced a new agreement to extend a submarine fiber optic cable in the Mediterranean between Egypt and Albania.
This initiative is part of Egypt’s plan to introduce five new international submarine cables in collaboration with international partners, adding to the existing 14 cables.
The newly extended cable will be connected to Western Europe through ground cables and will also link to several Mediterranean countries, including Italy, Libya, Cyprus, and Greece, through other submarine cables.
On the Egyptian side, the cable with Albania will be connected to submarine cables in the Red Sea through international ground cables, with Egypt currently hosting 10 such cables.
On the Albanian side, the cable will be connected, through ground connections, to a main data center in Germany’s Frankfurt, as well as other destinations in Central Europe and the Balkans such as Sofia, Vienna, and Budapest.
In a separate development, Telecom Egypt and Naitel Jordan have signed a cooperation agreement to establish a submarine Fiber Optic Cable connecting Egypt and Jordan, which will be named “Coral Bridge.”
The cable will extend between Jordan’s Aqaba and Egypt’s Taba, and is aimed at meeting the increasing demand for AI applications and data centers, leveraging the short distance between its two landing points.
The strategic location of the cable is notable, as Egypt serves as a major crossing between the East and the West, while Jordan is a key gateway to the Levant, Iraq, Arab Gulf, and the intersection between Asia and Europe.
