Cable&Wireless Worldwide Establishes Middle East Presence at Dubai Internet City

28 August, 2010- World leading critical communications provider, Cable&Wireless Worldwide has announced the opening of its new regional headquarters at Dubai Internet City (DIC), the region’s largest managed ICT business park and a member of TECOM Investments.

Following a three year presence in the region, the strategic move will allow C&W Worldwide to better serve its growing customer base in the Middle East and Africa and follows the company’s deployment of an extensive telecommunications network  across the Middle East in 2008. This included Points of Presences (PoPs) in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Manama, connecting customers based in the region back into the MPLS(Multiprotocol Label Switching) network. Since the deployment, C&W Worldwide has been providing connectivity to global enterprise customers including HSBC.

Malek Al Malek, Managing Director, Dubai Internet City and Dubai Outsource Zone, said:

The region continues to build a telecommunications infrastructure with a view to modernising a business environment that can encourage a healthy flow of investment.

It brings us great honour to have global telecom player Cable&Wireless Worldwide on board. The new office at DIC comes as further evidence of the company’s continuing success and commitment to the region. We look forward to working closely together, particularly on ways the telco industry can play a more strategic role in boosting the greater economy.

He added,

Setting up their regional headquarters in DIC will allow close proximity to all clients across Middle East and Africa. Customers and partners in the region will be able to easily access services and technologies from Cable&Wireless.

Through its next-generation network, C&W Worldwide provides improved services and support to meet the needs of its enterprise customers moving operations to the booming Middle East market. The services will also enable C&W Worldwide’s customers to route increased levels of data traffic in the EMEA region, where internet usage is expected to grow substantially.

Jim Marsh, Chief Executive Officer, Cable&Wireless Worldwide, said:

This investment further strengthens our resolve and ability to serve our enterprise customers on a global scale. We are committed to providing the best levels of service and aim to meet the needs of our customers in growing markets, such as the Middle East and Africa. With our solid understanding of this market, we will provide local customers with relevant SLAs in a manner very different to those seen elsewhere in the world.
 

C&W Worldwide has strong partnerships in the region with leading local telecommunications companies, allowing it to connect customers to their other facilities around the world with seamless, consistent services. C&W Worldwide’s global network provides multinational companies operating in the Middle East region with access to an advanced portfolio of Internet Protocol (IP) based managed communications services including hosting, security and worldwide connectivity. Ghassan Latif has been appointed to lead C&W Worldwide’s efforts in the region.

Home to many Fortune 500 companies as well as more than 1,300 specialized industry leaders from diverse segments of the information and communication technology sectors, Dubai Internet City has emerged as one of the largest ICT clusters in the world, providing the backbone to the industry while catering to the region’s increasing focus as a knowledge-economy.

About Dubai Internet City

Dubai Internet City (DIC), a member of TECOM Investments, was established in 2000. It is currently regarded the Middle East's largest information and communications technology (ICT) business park. Built as a strategic base for companies targeting emerging markets in several neighbouring regions, DIC’s core focus area extends from the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent, and from Africa to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, covering two billion people with a GDP of US$6.7 trillion. As a knowledge-oriented business model, DIC has created a dynamic international community of IT companies hosting business partners that include most of the Fortune 500 brands, as well as a number of small and medium enterprises and ventures. In 2009, 135 new companies joined the DIC cluster. For more information, please visit: www.dubaiinternetcity.com

About Cable&Wireless Worldwide

Cable&Wireless Worldwide (LSE: CW.) aims to be the first-choice provider of mission critical communications. The Company is one of the world's leading critical communication providers delivering a range of high-quality managed voice, data and IP-based services and applications to large corporates, multinational companies, governments, carrier customers and resellers across the UK, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East & Africa, Continental Europe and North America.

In the UK, Cable&Wireless Worldwide owns the country’s largest fibre network dedicated to business users of telecoms reaching 20,500km in length, and providing ubiquitous UK access through a combination of fibre, digital, microwave, radio and leased circuits. The network has presence in more than 400 towns and cities in the UK, with 802 unbundled exchanges covering 55% of the population.

On an international scale, Cable&Wireless Worldwide’s global next-generation network (NGN) stretches to more than 500,000km, including interests in 69 global cable systems, and provides connectivity to 153 countries. The Company’s Multi-Service Platform, an IP-based next-generation platform that operates across the NGN, offers a single environment on which voice and data applications can be converged to drive business efficiencies. The network is uniquely designed with inbuilt resilience and the capability to re-route traffic across diverse paths in the event of failure of one or more paths, particularly at the international level.

With more than 6,300 colleagues globally, Cable&Wireless Worldwide is committed to delivering exceptional customer service and developing long term partnerships with its customers. To find out more, please visit www.cw.com

For further information, please contact:

Angelina Wong
JIWIN Public Relations
Tel: + 971 4 369 2834
Email: Angelina.wong@jiwin.ae

Natalie Easson
Cable&Wireless Worldwide
Tel: +44 (0)7717 427 418 or +44 (0)1344 818 888
Email: Natalie.easson@cw.com