Iraq is preparing to sign a contract with the Bahraini "batelco" to download the sixth cable

Iraq is preparing him to sign a contract with the Bahrainini company “Batelco” to download the sixth marine cable soon, after being three decades with regional and international companies, the most recent yesterday between the Iraqi General Telecommunications and Informations Company and the UAE -“Breeze” business, Hayam al -yasiri. The minister made it clear that Iraq had two maritime cables since 2010, with the “GBI” and “flag” businesses, but they were inactive. She added that they were activated and three new contracts were signed with Saudi -Stc businesses, the Qatari “Overdoo” and finally the UAE “Breeze”, to reach a total of five marine cables. In addition to the marine cables, Iraq has soil networks under implementation, and another at the stage of contractual procedures, which include approvals with ‘arsho’ and ‘breeze’ companies and an alliance that includes ‘AKSA’, ‘flag’ and ‘horizon’ to extend soil networks that have been tagging them with neighboring countries. Cable will be added. The purpose of these projects has made Iraq an important regional passage to link international communication to Turkey through a short, safe and low -cost -desert and easier maintenance in marine cables, according to a previous statement to the Iraqi official. Ali Yassin, Director General of the Iraqi General Communications and Informatics Company, said during an interview with “Al -Sharq” that the signing of the contract with the UAE “Berze” is a completion of the ministry’s plan associated with attracting large companies to pass communications across Iraq. He noted that the landing of the marine cables is the first phase, followed by the establishment of wild transport networks ranging from the harbor of Al -Faw in the south to the Ibrahim Al -khalil port in the north with Türkiye, and then through Turkish countries to Europe. On a related matter, Yassin said that the ministry had developed a plan to set data for commercial purposes distributed across the country, which revealed that Baghdad would include two data centers, and an agreement was signed with the British “Flag” business to build a center in Basra.