Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 7
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
Iran’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Company and Turkey’s leading communications operator Turkcell signed an agreement to form new internet routes from Persian Gulf to Turkey and other countries.
The deal, which was signed by Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran’s deputy ICT minister, and Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioglu, envisages establishing alternative routes to Suez Canal and Babol-Mandab internet routes with participation of third parties, Fars news agency reported Sept. 7.
Iran's internet service has experienced several times of speed fall in recent years due to interruption of Turkey and Babol-Mandab internet routes into Iran.
In October 2015, internet users in Iran and some regional countries witnessed significant speed fall due to a cut off of the Turkey and Babol-Mandab internet routes.
Earlier in October 2012, an explosion damaged a pipeline supplying Iranian natural gas to Turkey, halting gas flow, and surprisingly disrupting internet connectivity to northern Iran and Iraq.
Internet communication lines are often installed along the existing physical routes, such as highways, power lines, rail lines or oil and gas pipelines. It was supposed that the Turkish internet and mobile provider was using communication lines along this pipeline to provide northern Iran and Iraq with internet.