CAIRO – 1 February 2024: Telecom Egypt and Hungary’s 4IG signed Thursday in Budapest an agreement to extend a submarine fiber optic cable in the Mediterranean between Egypt and Albania within the former’s plan to introduce five new international submarine cables in collaboration with international partners adding to the existing 14.
The cable will be connected to Western Europe through ground cables as well as to some Mediterranean countries, such as Italy, Libya, Cyprus and Greece, through other submarine cables.
On the Egyptian side, the cable with Albania will be connected to submarine cables in…