TIM Group's global operator Sparkle and Al-Bawaba for Telecommunications and Informatics, a Libyan ISP provider offering a wide range of ICT solutions, say they have enhanced their commercial partnership to provide international connectivity services to and from Libya.
The agreement is based on a state-of-the-art fully redundant infrastructure, which relies on Al-Bawaba's Libyan national backbone and on Sparkle's international capacity for the provision of Ethernet MPLS connectivity services to corporate customers.
As a result, say the partners, Sparkle and Al-Bawaba will provide end-to-end solutions combined with value-added services and customer care, leveraging Sparkle's portfolio and international presence and Al-Bawaba's local support.
Barbara Sole, Head of Data Sales for Africa at Sparkle, explains: "By combining our global expertise and extensive submarine cable network with Al Bawaba's strong local presence and market knowledge, we are committed to delivering enhanced connectivity solutions that will empower businesses across Libya."
Established in 2012, Al-Bawaba specialises in data connectivity solutions for multinational enterprises, government entities, NGOs, incumbent telecom operators, ISPs, and mobile operators.
As a strategic partner of Sparkle, Al-Bawaba offers a robust and secure international network, leveraging protected international private leased circuit (IPLC), Ethernet-over-SDH (EoS), and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-capable submarine and terrestrial fibre infrastructure.
This is the latest big announcement in what appears to be a busy period for Sparkle. During MWC25, Sparkle and Turkcell signed a memorandum of understanding on a subsea cable solution connecting Izmir to Milan.
More recently, Sparkle, Gold Data and Liberty Networks, the partners behind MANTA, a new subsea cable system connecting Mexico and the USA with Central and Latin America, announced that SubCom had been chosen for the design, manufacture, and installation of the MANTA system.
