LONDON(RAHNUMA): Syria’s state-owned telecom operator is continuing repairs on the “sabotaged” international undersea cable between the coastal city of Tartous and Alexandria in Egypt.
Syria Telecom said on Tuesday that it is currently providing internet via the Ugarit Cable System, which connects Tartous with Pentaskhinos in Cyprus and runs 239 km beneath the Mediterranean Sea.
It is also using another cable that passes through Turkiye, which has recently been upgraded to 1 terabit per second and has been used by CereTel to provide internet to users in Aleppo since the start of June, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
The company is set to launch a new internet cable originating from the Jordanian port city of Aqaba.
On Monday, the telecom operator announced that the Tartous-Alexandria undersea cable had been subjected to an “act of sabotage,” affecting internet service for users across the Syrian Arab Republic.
It described the act as part of a “systematic sabotage campaign” targeting the country’s infrastructure and said that full resumption of services would take time.
