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Company set up the first country to adopt a maritime telecommunications cable in Iraq
On: Thu 1/19/2012 7:38
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announced by Gulf Bridge International country about the installation of the first cable connections marine in Iraq, saying it would allow bandwidth data transfer higher and upgrade the telecommunications services and Internet communities, the report said Iraqi Ministry of Communications that the project will be an artery in parallel with other projects to link Iraq through the gate of the Gulf in the world .
He said the company's chairman Rashid Al Nuaimi, in a press statement: The company completed the process of landing the first cable connections Marine in Iraq, al-Faw in Basra province in cooperation with the General Company for communications and e-Iraq, indicating that the project will provide for Iraq through the contact system cables GBI, stings transfer higher data and upgrade the telecommunications services and Internet communities.
He Naimi that modern infrastructure, communications enjoyed by Iraq would give users the opportunity to enjoy the latest communication technologies available, stressing that the penetration rates of broadband and the Internet in Iraq less than 3% at present.
For his part, said the agent Technical and the Ministry of Communications Amir Bayati, according to the statement: The draft GBI is one of the strategic projects important for Keppel Marine, as the infrastructure Atsalatyh task, enters directly in the development of countries that participate in this giant project, pointing out that "the project would be for Iraq artery parallel other projects to link Iraq through the gate of the Gulf in the world. "
It is noteworthy that the telecommunications sector in Iraq has been the collapse in 2003, following the U.S. forces, such as invasion of the country, bombed dozens of sites and buildings of the Ministry of Communications in Baghdad and other governorates, the fact that the systems, military communications, and security was dependent In the past, facilities and networks of the Ministry, which has in previous years the reconstruction of its facilities and the development of terrestrial networks, but the services provided is still below the level of ambition of the citizens.
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