Reliance's Flag wins Saudi contract

NEW DELHI: Saudi Arabia's Integrated Telecom Company (ITC) has confirmed a multi-million dollar investment in Saudi's communications infrastructure with the signing of agreements that provide full landing stations for FLAG Telecom's FALCON cable system at Jeddah and near Ad Dammam, together with the purchase of capacity on the new regional terabit/s cable system.

Part of the Reliance Group, Flag Telecomm is a global provider of bandwidth. FALCON is a high-capacity resilient loop cable system that will provide multiple landings throughout the Gulf region with submarine links from the Middle East to Egypt in the west and, initially, to India in the east.

The signing follows similar agreements with Bahrain, Egypt, India, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.

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