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Works Progress on New CLS
A couple months ago, we announced the beginning of the construction of our new state-of-the-art Cable Landing Station (CLS). Some time has passed now and we are happy to report that the construction has been progressing very well! The foundations have been laid and...
Djibouti Telecom begins Construction of New Cable Landing Station
Djibouti City, Djibouti — October 14, 2021 Djibouti Telecom is today a leading strategic center for international telecommunications services in East Africa with its underlying network infrastructure comprising 8 operational submarine cable systems and 5 on-project...
2africa extension
As part of the original plan, Djibouti will be a landing station for the 2Africa submarine cable led by Facebook. On Tuesday 28th September 2021 Facebook announced that the 2Africa cable would now extend to over 45,000 kilometers with the addition of nine new landings...
VISIT OF NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
Djibouti and Japan have strong bilateral relations and it was our pleasure to welcome recently appointed Ambassador his excellency Mr Otsuka Umio to our cable landing station. Mr Otsuka Umio was welcomed by our Director of International Business amongst other senior...
Working meeting with Teleyemen
Djibouti Telecom has a long established relationship with Yemen; in fact, the submarine cable Aden-Djibouti is connected to Yemen and also with AAE1. Throughout the years we have engaged in many projects with our strategic partner Teleyemen. On Thursday 23rd September...
Djibouti Telecom Doubles Dare1 Capacity
HANOVER, Md. — August 23, 2021 Djibouti Telecom is leveraging Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme solution to upgrade its DARE1 (Djibouti Africa Regional Express1) network to increase digitization in the East Africa region; this move will double capacity for the DARE1 submarine...
Ministry of ICT Kenya Visits Cable Station
Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs Cabinet Secretary (CS), Joe Mucheru visited the Cable landing station in Nyali where the DARE-1 is landed and hosted by Telkom Kenya. Our regular readers remember that in March last year the DARE1 cable landed at its final...
djibouti telecom to sell minority stake
On July 11th 2021, the government of Djibouti announced a bill allowing sales of stakes in public enterprises and followed that up by announcing the sale of a significant minority stake in Djibouti Telecom to “a leading strategic partner”. The government stated: “The...
Upcoming networks
Our submarine cable network has grown steadily over the years and we currently have 8 Operational cable systems, with the latest to go live being the DARE1 network. At the time of writing, we have 5 cable system projects at various stages of the network lifecycle....