{"id":528650,"date":"2025-10-26T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:31:15","slug":"spain-syria-agree-on-laying-first-international-underwater-communications-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528650\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain, Syria agree on laying first international underwater communications cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>26 October 2025 09:54<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Syria\u2019s telecommunications ministry has signed an agreement for the landing of the first international submarine cable to the country with Barcelona-based Medusa Submarine Cable System, the Syrian state-run\u00a0<a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alekhbariya.net\/ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al-Ekhbariya <\/a>TV channel reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The submarine cable system is intended to connect 12 countries across North Africa and southern Europe, according to Medusa\u2019s website. It will also serve as a corridor connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean and to the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After 14 years of civil war and decades of Western sanctions, Syria\u2019s infrastructure shortfalls include poor Internet connectivity. Many users have to use costly mobile data instead of a wireless connection to get basic tasks done online.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Syria\u2019s new rulers aim to make rapid progress in improving public services after toppling Bashar Assad last December.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A senior Syrian official and a second official told Reuters in June that the government was in talks with regional telecoms companies Zain, Etisalat, STC and Ooredoo for an about $300-million project to develop Syria\u2019s fiber-optic communications network.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By Khagan Isayev<\/p>\n<p><b>Caliber.Az<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Views: <b>146<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"26 October 2025 09:54 Syria\u2019s telecommunications ministry has signed an agreement for the landing of the first international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[23355,7503,7502,2000,299,23356,23359,466,23358,23357,23354,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-528650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","14":"tag-international-experts","15":"tag-interviews","16":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","17":"tag-news-from-baku","18":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan","19":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115439303591986503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}