The national cable industry company "ENICAB" attached the former LTT to its assets in 1983 and gave birth, after its restructuring in 1997, to the CATEL company whose main activity was: Wire drawing, production & marketing of copper telecommunications cables. In 2005, it created, in partnership with Holding Cableco Sal, the CATEL FIBROPTIC company, specializing in the production and marketing of fiber optic cables.

The company has been set up in 1997 as a separate entity from ENICAB, CAETL has been carrying out a business based on an activity for a period of 70 years at a time where telecommunication cables activity was born. 

The factory was created in 1928 by decision of the French company "Lignes Télégraphiques & Téléphoniques" of France. Its nationalization by the Algerian state took place in 1968. It was immediately attached to SNMETAL and then to SONELEC in 1969.