The project, called Gulf in Fibre, will connect the six GCC countries — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman — and Iraq with a fibre optic cable network, creating a new high-speed connection corridor to Europe, outside of the traditional routes for telecom. The project, called Gulf in Fibre, will connect the six GCC countries — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman — and Iraq with a fibre optic cable network, creating a new high-speed connection corridor to Europe, outside of the traditional routes for telecom. Ooredoo Group has signed a historic agreement to build a new submarine cable connecting seven countries in the region – Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq – with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), a leading French company in the manufacture and installation of submarine. Ooredoo Group and du to Land FIG Subsea Cable in the UAE, Expanding High-Capacity Data Flows Across the Region Doha, Qatar and Dubai, UAE – 7 May 2026: Ooredoo Group today announced a partnership with du to land the Fibre in the Gulf (FIG) subsea cable system in the UAE, marking further progress in. Qatari telco Ooredoo Group has announced plans to build a subsea cable connecting seven countries in the Middle East. The cable will land in Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, providing 720Tbps of capacity across 24 fiber pairs. The system will provide low-latency, high-capacity. Kuwait's Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) awarded a contract license to Ooredoo group for the submarine cable, Fibre in Gulf (FIG).