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Autonomous Kurdistan has found itself with a comparative advantage in the telecoms department, with defacto faster Internet connections and consistent mobile service compared to the rest of federal Iraq.
Korek is a big player in Iraq now, “we have nationwide coverage. We increased our market share by 4 percent in less than a year: we moved from 11 to 15.7 percent.”
Newroz Telecom is building a high-speed broadband ADSL network in Erbil and Dohuk and laying more than 1,500 kilometers of fiber-optic cable, according to the Newroz Telecom website.
Newroz group is a regional telecom group. When Newroz Telecom began their operation in 2005 the internet penetration rate was almost zero. Newroz Telecom was the first company to interconnect Iraq around the world and replace the old connections. Following the recent negative experience in Iraq, Newroz Telecom is now focusing on Kurdistan only. The company plans to deploy 4G (LTE) all over the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Imagine it is 2005 and the Internet penetration rate of Kurdistan (KRG) is near to zero, the only telecom was the government monopoly entity with aging exchanges and no fiber optics.
Two years ago an ISP or a data company had always had a disadvantage in comparison to a 2G mobile company, as the latter always had an upper hand because the voice application was more popular.
The Internet penetration rate in Iraqi Kurdistan is a subject to controversy. Kawa A. Junad, CEO of Newroz Telecom, the largest and leading Internet provider in Kurdistan, believes that the penetration rate is around 7% in Kurdistan and 1% in the greater Iraq.
Newroz Telecom had a plan to position Iraq on the global map by building data transfer infrastructure that would have connected the East to the West with a data hub in Baghdad, which would have competed with traditional sub-marine cables going throught the Suez Canal.
Newroz group is a regional telecom group. Allai Newroz Telecom is a shareholding company with local and international investors. Furthermore, Newroz Telecom holds shares in other companies and projects.
According to the Iraqi constitution, Iraqi Kurdistan’s Ministry of Communication has a right to issue numerous licenses.
