By IANS
New Delhi : Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile service provider, Wednesday signed an agreement with other global telecom firms to construct and maintain a high-capacity fibre-optic submarine cable that stretches from India to France via the Middle East.
The cable system will be called the ‘I-ME-WE Cable System’ and is the fifth in the series of similar cable systems.
“This investment is in line with our strategy to extend our international footprint and focus on connecting our customers in India to the Middle East and Europe,” Rajan Swaroop, executive director (global network services), Airtel Enterprise Services, said in a statement.
“This partnership will also play a key role in our endeavour to provide alternate routes for meeting the bandwidth requirements of our customers at any given time,” Swaroop said.
Besides Airtel, the other telecom companies involved in the project are Etisalat (United Arab Emirates), France Telecom (France), Ogero (Lebanon), PTCL (Pakistan), STC (Saudi Arabia), TE (Egypt), TIS Sparkle (Italy) and VSNL (India).