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Sparkle collides with LPTIC on the BlueMed Submarine Cable

Sparkle, a leading international service provider, has partnered with Libya Postal Telecommunication and Technology Holding Company (LPTIC), the Libyan state-owned telecom company, to construct a new submarine infrastructure linking Libya to Sicily and Europe through the BlueMed Submarine Cable

Signed by Mohamed IB. Mohamed Ben Ayad, chairman of LPTIC, and Enrico Maria Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle, the MoU also foresees the possibility for Sparkle to offer LPTIC additional services as well as rights over the BlueMed to be further examined and detailed by the parties in view of the definitive agreement

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