EghtesadOnline: Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) has launched a new project in collaboration with Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei Technologies, to integrate and upgrade landline and mobile telecommunications network. At a press conference attended by. TIC said it plans to install an additional 14,000km of fibre-optic network in the next two months, increasing the total length of its infrastructure to 84,000km. TIC, an Iranian state-owned enterprise, is working on the project to improve its network coverage, which is used by third-party service. *๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐๐จ๐ซ 2025: ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง'๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ* Behzad Akbari, Deputy Minister of Communications and CEO of the #TIC, highlighted the achievements of the *๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐๐จ๐ซ 2025* event, held. Meta is now planning Project Waterworth, a 50,000km cable explicitly designed to bypass the Middle East entirely, connecting the U., India, South Africa, and Brazil. The war that was supposed to end in three days is now being priced into the architecture of the global internet. At least five projects underway in the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf are scheduled to come online between 2026 and 2027, but those timelines. This crisis has transformed the strategic Strait of Hormuz from a promising digital corridor into an active war zone, triggering a cascade of delays, force majeure declarations, and a frantic search for overland alternatives that carries its own set of profound geopolitical risks.