TeleYemen has been the sole licensed provider for the international telecommunication services since 1971 (Yemen International Gateway). It was established as a subsidiary of the British Cable & Wireless Company (C & W) until 1989. The Public Telecom Corporation (PTC) became a partner with 49% of the total shares and the name of the company changed into TeleYemen accordingly.Lately in 2004 TeleYemen became owned entity with 75% by Public Telecommunication Corporation and 25% by Yemen Post and Postal Savings Corporation.
TeleYemen signed an agreement with Falcon to install two landing stations for Flag optical fiber submarine cable in Hodeidah and Ghaidah and provide TeleYemen with 10gbps capacity on the same cable on an IRU basis.
PTC signed a renewal agreement with France Telecom to continue managing TeleYemen business for another two years.
TeleYemen launched a new reduction in international calls, customers can make their international calls at YR 1.5 per second to any country, any time and from any telephone.
TeleYemen launched the YahClick service, YehClick is a satellite broadband internet service covers both rural and urban areas with speed reaches up to 15 Mbps.