Laying works were completed in July 2008 by the American cable ship CS Tyco Decisive, just a couple of weeks prior to the South Ossetia War. The submarine cable was manufactured and laid by and consists of two fiber pairs each carrying 96 wavelengths with a bandwidth of 100 Gbit/s providing a total bandwidth of 12. Bulgaria has officially joined the implementation of Kardesa, a large-scale project for an underwater optical cable across the Black Sea that will connect Europe with the Caspian region and Asia. The 100 million euro investment has been secured by telecommunications giant Vodafone. The optical fibers will be connected on land at Aheloy, after which the existing infrastructure of Bulgartransgaz will be used An official event organized by the British Embassy in Bulgaria marked the official launch of one of the most significant technological projects in the region – the. dollars) for the construction of 7,000 kilometers of fiber optic networks across Bulgaria were signed on Tuesday, marking a major step forward in the country's digital transformation. Nearly 400,000 Bulgarians and 140 municipalities in remote areas where connectivity is not well developed will have access to high-speed internet at 1 Gbps over a fibre-optic network and will be covered by a 5G mobile network.
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