New projects international telecommunication infrastructures which will increase the connectivity between Greece and Egypt, are jointly planned by ADMIE Group and Telecom Egypt.

In a meeting held in Cairo, the President and CEO of ADMIE Manos Manousakis, accompanied by the Director of Grid Telecom Giorgos Psyrris and Group executives, discussed with the CEO of Telecom Egypt Mohamed Nasr the alternative scenarios for new telecommunication connections in order to increase even more the possibility of data transfer between Europe, Africa and Asia, with key hubs in Greece and Egypt.

As ADMIE reports, a strategic priority for the Group is the development of new telecommunications connections in Eastern Mediterranean in cooperation with important international telecommunications providers. At the same time, for the global data transfer market, Greece and the Balkans are the new necessary entrance to Europe.

Through its Grid Telecom subsidiary, ADMIE Group and Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s largest telecommunications organization, have already entered into a strong strategic partnership for the Greece-Egypt telecommunications interconnection, with the branching of 2AFRICA, the world’s largest undersea fiber optic system which will connect Africa with our country through Crete.

By the middle of 2024 it is expected to have been beached on the south side of Crete the branching of the world’s largest fiber optic cable system 2AFRICA for the Greece-Egypt submarine telecommunications interconnection, which is already being built with the participation of ADMIE Group and Telecom Egypt.

Africa’s 2AFRICA submarine cable system will have a total length of more than 45,000 km and its branch to Greece will connect Crete in the east with Port Said in Egypt and in the west with Genoa in Italy and Marseille in France.

The new system will effectively serve the growing data traffic between three continents in the Eastern Mediterranean region, as it will be the shortest route with the lowest data transfer latency between Egypt and Greece extending north to the Balkans, Central and Western Europe and south to the Arabian Peninsula and other important destinations in Asia and Africa.