New Regional Subsea Cable: Egypt/Saudi Arabia.
Telecom Egypt and Mobily are cooperating on a new subsea cable connecting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Telecom Egypt is a PTT whereas Mobily is a competitive Saudi Arabian mobile operator. Few details regarding the project are available. Mobily is financing the project whereas TE is the cable landing partner. This project reflects a broad trend where competitive mobile providers are becoming more involved in connecting Middle Eastern countries both to reduce their own costs and also create strategic alliances. In fact, Mobily is following the same game plan as the much larger Vodafone and Bharti Airtel. As mobile voice and data traffic becomes increasingly international, mobile providers acquire more international capacity and often the wholesale market. Typically, they buy more than they need themselves because bigger purchases lower per bit costs. Then they sell the excess capacity in the wholesale market. This is how Bharti entered the wholesale telecom market.
Most likely this new cable will be unrepeatered due to the short distance between the Saudi Arabian Duba CLS on the Red Sea and its Egyptian counterpart, the new Sharm El Sheik CLS. The yellow circle is Duba. I don't have the precise coordinates for Sharm El Sheik.
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https://www.connectingafrica.com/connectivity/telecom-egypt-mobily-subsea-cable-to-link-saudi-egypt
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