Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, announced an agreement this week to form a consortium with three other national telecommunications companies — the UK’s Cable & Wireless, Iran’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Company (TIC), and Oman’s Omantel.
The consortium’s goal is to create a vast Internet superhighway, the Europe Persia Express Gateway (EPEG), connecting Europe and the Middle East.
According to the terms of the agreement, Cable & Wireless will construct a cable highway connecting Europe to Ukraine up to the Russian border. Rostelecom will be responsible for the connection from the Russian-Ukrainian border through Azerbaijan and up to the border with Iran. From the Iranian border, TIC will extend the highway to the Persian Gulf, where Omantel is to complete the connection to Oman.
The official signing of the agreement will take place this week in Muscat, the capital of Oman.
Source: ComNews.ru
