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19 September 2014Media coverage
Italy’s Retelit has announced that it has joined the Asia Africa Europe 1 (AAE-1) submarine cable consortium, and will construct a landing station in Bari, on the Adriatic coast.
The relevant agreements were signed on 16 September 2014 in Bangkok, in the presence of all of the cable’s backers, by Giuseppe Sini, Retelit chief commercial officer and China Unicom’s Troy Li, who acts as the chairman of the AAE-1 partners. The AAE-1 system will connect Hong Kong, Djibouti, UAE, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France using 100Gbps technology.
