The Medusa cable is more than 8,700 km long. It was initially planned to connect Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Egypt. The Libyan United International Company (LUIC), a consortium formed by several Libyan private sector companies working in the field of communications, signed an agreement with Medusa Submarine Cable System last...
Libya’s government has confirmed plans to open the country’s telecommunications industry to competition, allow foreign investment and end the long-standing market monopoly. Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba said this was necessary in order to improve the poor quality of service and reduce the high cost of communication. Aldabaiba said, “The need to reduce the high...
Following the internal conflict in Libya, its technology and telecoms sector has been largely damaged. Its rehabilitation is one of the priorities of the country, which is currently under reconstruction. The Libyan authorities are aware of the challenges of digital transformation. Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat and Faisal Ahmed Qarqab, chairman of Libyan...
The development and improvement of Libya’s telecoms and technology sector was the subject of a discussion on 1 April between Faisel Gergab, chairman of the Libyan Post Telecommunication & Information Technology Company (LPTIC), and China’s ambassador to Libya, Qimin Wang, Libya Herald has reported. The LPTIC, the government holding company in charge of all state-owned telecoms...
Libya wishes to regain the dynamism of its telecommunications sector, destroyed during the ten years of civil war it has gone through. The country is increasing the number of telecom collaboration requests with its international partners. Through the Libyan Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology Company (LPTIC), the country wants to take advantage of English expertise to...
Thanks to a framework for exchanging experiences with Egypt, in place for many years, Libya wants to offer its populations high quality telecom services. The country can thus save on the costly deployment of telecom infrastructures. The Libyan International Telecom Company (LITC) has requested cooperation with Telecom Egypt in the international communications segment. Adel Abu Faris, the...
