Transworld Associates is a Tier-1 provider based in

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

serving as a backbone for IP connectivity in Pakistan. It is a joint-venture between Orastar Limited and the Oman based OMZEST Group. Transworld owns and operates the 1,300 km

submarine communications cable A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables were laid beginning in the 1850s and car ...

named TW1 that links Pakistan to the

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and

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. In addition to operating TW1, Transworld is also a consortium member of the

SEA-ME-WE 5 South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore and France. The cable is approximately 20,000 kilometres long and provides ...

submarine cable and maintains the landing point for the cable in Karachi, Pakistan.

History

Transworld Associates was incorporated as a private company in Pakistan in October 1980. It was a subsidiary of Orascom Investment Holdings (OIH) S.A.E. In January 2022, OIH divested its shareholding to Orastar Limited. As of September 2023, Orastar Limited holds 90% shareholding in the company with the remaining 10% owned by the OMZEST Group.

Network

Transworld is the only operator in Pakistan which fully owns its submarine cable, TW1. They are also the consortium partner in

and the upcoming SEA-ME-WE 6 and

2Africa 2Africa is an international submarine telecommunications cable that circumnavigates the coastline of Africa to interconnect Europe and the Middle East. The system will be one of the first to use spatial division multiplexing (SDM1) and has a desi ...

cables. TW peers with

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, Germany over a 100G link and

Equinix Equinix Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It specializes in internet connectivity and colocation centres, also referred to as carrier hotels. The company converted to a real estate investment t ...

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

over a 400G link. They also have peering and interconnect agreements in Asia and the Middle East through

Etisalat by e& e&, formerly branded as Etisalat, is an Emirati state-owned telecommunications company. It is the 16th largest in the world by subscribers. On 31 December 2021, Etisalat reported consolidated revenue of United Arab Emirates dirham, AED 53.3 bil ...

and

Omantel Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) is the first telecommunications company in Oman and is the primary provider of internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that ...

Transworld Home

Transworld Enterprise Services (TES) Pvt Ltd was incorporated in February 2011 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transworld Associates. It was commercially launched in 2017 as Transworld Home, a residential triple play service provider offering Internet Services, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) / digital TV (with the most number of HD Channels in Pakistan) and Telephone through its

Fiber-to-the-home Fiber to the ''x'' (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for Last mile (telecommunications), last mile tel ...

(FTTH) services in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. They offer plans ranging from 30 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. From Quarter 4 of 2022 to Quarter 4 of 2023 Transworld Home maintained its position of being Pakistan’s Fastest Internet Provider in Ookla Speed Test Global Index.

Services

TWA offers numerous services as a Tier-1 provider, including

IP Transit Internet transit is the service of allowing network traffic to cross or "transit" a computer network, usually used to connect a smaller Internet service provider (ISP) to the larger Internet. Technically, it consists of two bundled services: * Th ...

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on labels rather than network addresses. Whereas network addresses identify endpoints, the labels identi ...

and DDoS protection.

References

External links

* {{Official website Telecommunications companies of Pakistan Internet service providers of Pakistan Companies based in Islamabad Information technology companies of Pakistan