Omantel, the leading provider of integrated telecommunication services in the Sultanate of Oman, has sealed a partnership deal with Wingu Group’s Djibouti Data Centre to expand into the African market and further boost its standing as a leading regional wholesale hub.
Wingu Group’s Djibouti Data Center was the first and only carrier neutral data center facility in East Africa with access to all major international fiber optic systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions with Africa.
Apart from providing access to the African market, Omantel’s Point of Presence (POP) in Djibouti will help forge new wholesale partnerships with operators and hyperscale’s, improve the utilization of connectivity between Oman and Africa, facilitate better commercial models that will lead to business growth and enable better support for customers with connectivity requests to and from Africa.
The partnership is set to open doors to new opportunities in Africa and will further extend Omantel’s reach by utilizing the cable systems landing in Oman (Salalah) and Djibouti, such as the AAE-1, EIG, MENA as well as a number of new cable systems which will be announced soon.
Wingu Group is a specialist carrier-neutral data center operator focused on East Africa providing international and local enterprise customers with cost-effective commercial collocation solutions and access to a growing and dynamic ecosystem.