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Transworld (TWA) Announces Landing of Another Submarine Cable SEA-

ME-WE 6 in Pakistan

Transworld has announced addition of
another submarine cable SEA-ME-WE 6 in
its portfolio, which will be ready for service
by Q1 2025. The Southeast Asia-Middle
East-Western Europe 6 is a 19,200 km-
long submarine cable system connecting
Pakistan with multiple countries between
Singapore and France. SEA-ME-WE 6 will
offer one of the lowest latencies available
between Southeast Asia, Middle East
and Western Europe, transferring more
than 100 Tbps, the equivalent of 40,000
high-definition videos each second. The
SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium includes Trans
World Associates, Bangladesh Submarine
Cable Company, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (India)
Dhiraagu (Maldives), Djibouti Telecom,
Mobily (Saudi Arabia), Orange (France), WE 6 coupled with SEA-ME-WE 5 and Asia and Europe, strengthening the overall
Singtel (Singapore), Sri Lanka Telecom, Transworld’s 100% owned private cable network of each consortium partner,
Telecom Egypt, Telekom Malaysia and TW1 will deliver resilient, robust and through trans-Egypt’s new geo-diversified
Telin (Indonesia). “To meet ever increasing redundant network connectivity with crossings and landing points. The added
demand of bandwidth and to play a more flexibility and improved reliability to flexibility means service providers in the
pivotal role in the forthcoming era of 5G, our customers. Transworld is poised to consortium can rapidly scale capacity,
Transworld has joined the SEA-ME-WE maintain its role as operator of the choice protect traffic from faults and lower total
6 consortium, to build the latest state of in post 5G era” The new cable provides an cost of network ownership.
the art high-capacity submarine cable additional layer of diversity and resilience
system. Once commissioned, SEA-ME- for the high traffic density route between

Jazz Investment Reaches US$10 Billion in Pakistan

The merger of Mobilink and Warid in 2017 Additionally, the world’s top telecom Park (JDP) which was established with a
enabled Jazz to become the market leader equipment manufacturers including staunch investment of over US$ 8 million.
for the cellular network in Pakistan with Huawei, Nokia-Siemens, and ZTE are the The JDP will help in accelerating Pakistan’s
the largest user base. In a statement, primary vendors for networking equipment digital transformation ambition by greatly
Jazz said that it has invested more than at Jazz. Furthermore, it has a workforce improving the existing level of IT services
US$10 billion since its inception, including that is trained, competent, and has vast being provided to a number of sectors.
US$ 560 million in the last couple of experience in the telecom industry. Till now, JDP is the country’s largest
years alone after its merger especially to Currently, Jazz is the country’s number Telecommunications Industry Association
improve its Quality of Service. It further one 4G operator and the largest internet (TIA) Tier-III certified data center in terms
said that its top preference is to connect and broadband service provider with 72.5 of space and power capacity. The company
the fellow citizens with high-speed million+ subscriber base including 34.7 will utilize this digital park to provide secure
mobile broadband taking the population million 4G users and largest spectrum IT infrastructure and hardware hosting
coverage of its 4G network to 65%. Jazz holding. Jazz has been recognized as the facilities to businesses along with the local
emphasized to have invested heavily to fastest mobile network four times in a row startups. All of these factors indicate that
ensure optimum service experience for its by a global leader in internet testing Ookla. Jazz doesn’t compromise on its quality
customers, as for Jazz, quality of services In the statement Jazz said that its serves of services in any regard. Though, minor
is of utmost importance. Jazz’s statement its valued customers with a technically technical faults occur with every telecom
also says that its top performance through superior network and reliable services. operator and they shouldn’t be portrayed
its infrastructure developments includes In addition to that, Jazz also strives for as a holistic fault in the quality of services
the company’s 25,000 kilometers of the digital progress of the country. In this as reported by certain media outlets.
fiber-optic cables around the country. regard, the company has set up Jazz Digital

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