According to sources at Kuwait’s Ministry of Communications (MoC) quoted by Arab Times, 72% of a first-phase copper-to-fibre network replacement project was completed by September 2023. The MoC’s initial-phase copper-to-fibre programme covers seven areas – ‘Bidaa, Rumaithiya, Salwa, Fintas Agricultural, Salmiya, Ras Salmiya, and the Capital’ – and the report added that in one aspect of the project, local access (terminal) equipment replacement had been carried out in 6,060 locations, with 4,000 planned locations remaining.
In related work, the MoC is simultaneously developing the ‘third phase’ of its national fibre-optic network rollout in the current fiscal year, and has reached ‘85%’ completion of the ‘design, planning, and study’ stage for this project, the report stated.