BICS (company)

The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with sales offices and Service Operation Centers worldwide, including Dubai, Singapore, Bern, San Francisco and New York.

BICS provides services across more than 200 countries, carries around 50% of the world's data roaming traffic and partners with more than 500 mobile operators.

[2][3] BICS owns and operates a high capacity MPLS enabled global network based on a wholly owned and operated 100 Gbit/s capable DWDM network in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, UK and Belgium augmented with leased capacity and submarine cable assets to serve the global footprint.

To add physical redundancy, in 2008 BICS invested in the EIG (Europe India Gateway) cable system through their partner Omantel.

[16] BICS historically started off as a voice-only provider, but began to diversify its offering with mobile oriented solutions[buzzword] in the early years 2000.