About Us
Djibouti Telecom stands as a premier hub for international telecommunications in East Africa, leveraging Djibouti’s strategic location at the crossroads of global trade routes. As the region’s most interconnected provider, Djibouti Telecom is dedicated to enabling seamless global connectivity through an expansive and resilient network infrastructure.
Our robust infrastructure includes 13 submarine cables — 10 operational and 3 under construction — connecting 90 countries worldwide, making us one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s most interconnected providers. With three strategically placed cable landing stations, Djibouti Telecom ensures resilient, high-speed data transfer and reliable access to global markets.
We are a telecom hub for East Africa offering trusted telecommunications solutions for carriers, ISPs, and global enterprises.
Republic of Djibouti
The Republic of Djibouti is located in the Horn of Africa, midway between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer, at the entrance to the Red Sea, in the Bab El-Mandeb Strait. It is one of the smallest countries in Africa with a total area of 23,200 km2.
To the east, it is largely open to the Gulf of Aden with a coastline of 372 km and to the west, north-west and south, it shares 500 km border with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.
Its geographical position, at the crossroads between Africa, the West, the Far East and the Arab World, offers it a privileged maritime and geostrategic position with economic consequences but also a certain socio-cultural influence.
Moreover, Djibouti enjoys political stability and its telecommunication system is exemplary. The modernity and the quality of the telecommunication equipment that the Republic of Djibouti has acquired, give it the status of hub of the region in the field of telecommunications.
Company History & Milestones
Djibouti Telecom is the national telecommunications operator of the Republic of Djibouti. The company was born on September 20, 1999 from the merger of the Telecommunications Department of the Office of Posts and Telecommunications (OPT) and the International Telecommunication Company of Djibouti (STID). It is an autonomous operator of private law, holding the monopoly of national and international telecommunications throughout Djibouti.
Djibouti Telecom is governed by the law on commercial companies. Its regulatory framework is set by Law No. 13 of 1998 on the reorganization of the postal and telecommunications sector and Law No. 80 of 2004 on the reform of the ICT sector (Information and Communication Technologies).
The Company is created to make the territory of the Republic of Djibouti an advanced telecommunication platform on the eastern side of Africa for a development of telecommunications traffic to and from the African, Asian and European continents. Djibouti Telecom provides fixed, mobile and Internet services.
The company has established itself as a regional hub offering a broad portfolio of voice and data / IP services, capacity and interconnections on its network, extending to Eastern and Southern Africa, the Middle East and the Middle East. East and Europe, as well as excellent bandwidth and network availability.
Djibouti Telecom also offers a wide range of communications infrastructure services ranging from network connectivity to colocation services with data center and teleport facilities, through peering agreements with major Internet players and remote control point’s presence in Marseille, Palermo, Dubai and Singapore.
Djibouti Telecom is today a leading strategic center for international telecommunication services in East Africa with its underlying network infrastructure including seven international submarine cables, with direct connection in more than 90 countries, and two terrestrial cables (between Djibouti-Somali, and Djibouti-Ethiopia) and two new cables for 2021. In order to improve the resilience of the network, the company has built two cable landing stations.
Our Vision
THE TELECOM HUB FOR EAST AFRICA
Djibouti Telecom has been making strides to position the country as a key telecom hub for East Africa and to help partners interconnect with the rest of the world.
A few of our customers/ partners
