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Baku hosts third meeting of EPEG Consortium

01 November 2011 10:19 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Elnur Huseynguluyev - APA-Economics. Today, Baku hosts the third meeting of â€œEurope Persia Express Gatewayâ€ (EPEG) Consortium.

Delivering speech at the event Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov noted that very large capacity, high-quality communication channels will be delivered from Europe to Oman â€“ starting from Germanyâ€™s Frankfurt city through Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Oman. â€œThis route is the shortest way â€“ alternative of undersea cables between Europe and Asia. Azerbaijan has been selected both as a main and reserve transit route in this projectâ€.

To him, Delta Telecom company, which participates in the project on the Azerbaijani side, has great potential: â€œBy taking successful implementations of several projects in this sphere, we believe that the company will cope with this project tooâ€. Delta Telecom has special role in that Azerbaijan takes the leading places in global rating indicators for network technologiesâ€.

Note that, the event has been attended by representatives of â€œRostelekomâ€ (Russia), â€œTelekom Ä°nfrastruktur Kompaniyasiâ€ (Iran), â€œOmantelâ€œ(Oman) and â€œCable and Wirelessâ€ (England).

Remind that, the first meeting of the consortium was held in Tehran, the second in Moscow.