Transworld Associates is a privately owned company headquartered in Pakistan, operating as a joint venture of Orastar Limited and OMZEST Group of His Excellency Dr. Omar Abdul Mone’m Yousuf Al Zawawi of Sultanate of Oman. Founded in 2006, the company employs approximately 510 individuals and focuses on technology, information, and internet services. Functioning as Pakistan's sole private sector organization with exclusive ownership of submarine fiber optic cable networks, it operates as a Tier-1 network operator, delivering internet bandwidth to cellular mobile operators, ISPs, corporate organizations, and small and medium enterprises. Utilizing an extensive footprint of fiber optic networks, the company connects the people of Pakistan to the digital world. Transworld Associates owns its 1,300 KM submarine cable system, TW1, and is a consortium member of the 20,000 KM SEA-ME-WE 5 fiber optic cable system, which is a multiregional data superhighway connecting Pakistan to Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Europe. The company has also secured capacities on other regional cables, both on eastern and western sides, to ensure route diversity and resilience. It maintains peering in the Middle East, Europe, US, and Far East with Tier-1 operators to provide low-latency connections for internet and data traffic, with points of presence in international markets including Germany, France, and Singapore. Transworld Associates is integrated into the global Internet peering ecosystem through direct connectivity with content providers such as Google, Facebook, Akamai, Netflix, and Amazon.
