Pakistan can be part of Trans-Asian European cable
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan could be part of the existing TAE (Trans-Asian European) cable or any other consortium being planned by Azerbaijan in the telecommunication sector.

Talking with Azerbaijan’s Minister of Communication and Information Technologies Ali Abasov Pakistan’s Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari said Pakistan could be part of the existing TAE (Trans-Asian European) cable or any other consortium being planned by Azerbaijan but the usage rates being charged for traffic on TAE were expensive for the operators which would instead prefer using the two submarine cables Pakistan was already linked to.

He said Pakistan could also serve as a corridor for central Asian region because of its reliable and cheaper international connectivity. He said Pakistan was about to be linked with India through optic fibre while two additional submarine cables were also being brought to Pakistan within the next six months from UAE by Wateen and Orascom groups respectively.

Pakistan agreed to provide technical input and expertise to Azerbaijan to help introduce deregulation in the monopolistic telecom sector of the Central Asian state.

Labels: fibre optic, Infrastructure

- posted @ Saturday, February 25, 2006