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Mr Mohamed Saro, speaking at Submarine Networks World Africa 2011

Mr Mohamed Saro,
Director, International Customers & Networks
Telecom Egypt, Egypt

Mohamed Saro is the Director of The International Customers Business Unit in Telecom Egypt (TE) responsible for International Customers’ Data and undersea cable business. Saro founded the business unit to maximize TE revenues from International Data services capitalizing on the wealth of TE’s International network, handling business development, planning, project management, operations and sales of the undersea cable assets of Telecom Egypt. Since then, he has been managing the submarine mega projects including TE North, IMEWE, EIG, SEACOM, TGN EuroAsia, Alexandros, and HAWK , in addition to in-service cables including Aletar, SWM3, SMW4, FEA and Falcon increasing Egypt’s capacity and placing it squarely on the map.
Saro has also been Director of International Affairs with commercial responsibilities for International Voice and Data Wholesale and ownership for relations with global carriers and international customers.
Prior to joining TE in 2008, Saro was the Technical Operations Director of TEData (the largest Internet provider in Egypt and a subsidiary of Telecom Egypt). In addition to this position he was already involved in different consultancy projects with TE, capitalizing on his vast operational experience and submarine cables knowledge.
Saro has over 10 years of experience in both the executive & technical areas of telecommunication, networking & vendor/carrier relationship management in the field of ICT in Egypt and the MENA region. This stems from his diversified background, working in different Network Service providers such as Internet Egypt, Link Dot Net, and GEGA NET including the supervision of the merger of GEGA NET and IDSC networks to form TE Data in 2001.
Saro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering from Cairo University and post graduate studies in Business from the German University in Cairo.
Appearing:
Day 1: Tuesday 26th of July 2011
16.30

Panel discussion: Submarine cable routes and landing points

• How to identify routing options that will enhance traffic flow
• What land use rights or permits are required to land cables?
• Environmental impact assessments – working with them to deliver capacity
• How to capitalise on Africa’s unused routing options to gain access tointernational networks

Mr Ryan Sher,
Chief Operating Officer ,
WIOCC, Kenya
Mr Johan Meyer,
Executive: Global Capacity Business,
Telkom South Africa Ltd, South Africa
Mr Mohamed Saro,
Director, International Customers & Networks,
Telecom Egypt, Egypt
Mr Nigel Bayliff,
CEO,
Huawei Marine Networks Networks Co. Ltd, China, China
Day 2: Wednesday 27th of July 2011
11.30

Panel discussion: Fibre enabling last-mile connectivity

• Terrestrial expansion to connect underserviced central and landlocked Africa
• How to deploy reliable last mile access technologies
• How cables can enable mobile broadband by delivering the required capacity network deployment

Ms Puleng Sejanamane,
General Manager: Carrier Services,
MTN Business, South Africa
Mr Eric Osiakwan,
Founder & Executive Secretary,
African Internet Service Providers Association (AfriSPA), Mali
Mr Mohamed Saro,
Director, International Customers & Networks,
Telecom Egypt, Egypt
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