Tehran, Iran, May 16
By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:
Tose'e Etemad Mobin, major shareholder of the Iran Telecommunication Company, signed a memorandum of understanding with Kazakhstan's Kazakhtelecom for cooperation in a variety of fields.
The MoU was signed on the World Communications Day and includes agreement to cooperation on international data transit, development of international fiber optic network, education, and health, Fars news agency reported May 16.
Mehdi Safari, CEO of the Iranian company, said on the sidelines of the signing ceremony that there are grounds for stretching fiber optic cable from Kazakhstan to Iran and Europe.
He also announced that his company is ready to export engineering services to Kazakhstan.
In a similar move last June, an Iran-Pakistan optical fiber project was inaugurated in Iran's south eastern city of Zahedan to provide Pakistan with needed Internet bandwidth.