A wholesale internet supplier, IQ Networks, based within the northern autonomous region of Kurdistan, is currently delivering international traffic through Iraq to connect to Asia and Europe, increasing hopes in Iraq of turning into a global hub for net traffic in spite of the internal chaos in the country.

Iraq depends heavily on Kurdistan for internet connectivity, when Baghdad’s insistence on state management of fixed infrastructure at intervals its jurisdiction suppressed development and spooked private investors. The government conjointly segregates networks delivering transit and traffic that’s destined locally.

Martin Frank, chief executive of IQ Networks, stated, “This will be the first privately built and privately run network of this kind outside of Kurdistan.”

With a deal by Baghdad, IQ Networks arranged a 15-year renewable license to control the network however will hand possession of the cable remote of Kurdistan to state-owned Iraq Telecommunications and Post Company (ITPC) and can pay 26% of overall revenue to the government.

The project has encountered varied barriers. It had been off in 2011 and granted to a different company before that call was upturned in 2013, as confirmed by Frank. The network follows Iraq’s main oil and gas pipeline. It had been nearing launch weeks before Daesh’s explosive surge last June allowing it to arrest a lot of western and northern part of Iraq — areas through where the cable traveled.

“We’re expecting large parts of the above-ground infrastructure — shelters, generators, power equipment and transmission equipment — to have been stolen or destroyed,” Frank said.

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