The Ministry of Communications said the planning stage for extension, installation and connection of the fiber-optic network in all governorates of the country as part of its plans to expand the current network is almost complete.
An official in the ministry told a local Arabic daily that the Ministry has addressed the Kuwait Municipality regarding the third phase of the fiber-optic network project, and requested that land be allocated in the border areas, around the Mubarak Port and agricultural areas, such as Subbiya, Nuwaiseeb, Salmi, Abdali, Wafra and Kabd, which do not have telephone exchanges.
The official pointed out the ministry has called for taking into consideration all aspects of the project for the purpose of the network for approval by the utilities committee in the municipality, to allocate sites in preparation for adding them to the tender documents of the project.
He stated that the area of the sites that ministry wants to allocate is 2,000 square meters in Salmi, Nuwaiseeb and Subiya, and that the third phase will include the rest of the country and will reach 90 areas that will cover about 100,000 plots.
He pointed out that the third phase includes converting traditional copper network systems into advanced optical fibers, especially after the completion of the first phase, which included 28 regions, and the second phase about 34 regions.
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