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India telcos want landing stations for cables they don’t own

January 31, 2023 News Centre 0

India’s DoT is concerned that some of the telcos applying for submarine cable landing station authorisations are not stakeholders in the systems that they land. Read more…

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Meta and Airtel forge epic infrastructure partnership

December 6, 2022 Staff Writer 0

Bharti Airtel and Meta Platforms have entered into a broad partnership that spans across OpenRAN, subsea cable systems and CPaaS digital solutions. Read more…

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PLDT continues bid to be APAC’s new favorite hyperscaler hub

September 14, 2022 Joana Bagano 0

PLDT is building a new cable landing station for the ADC subsea system in its ongoing quest to transform the Philippines into a regional hyperscaler hub. Read more…

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India needs more capacity to handle coming international traffic demand

June 15, 2022 John C. Tanner 0

International bandwidth usage in India is expected to grow tenfold between 2021 and 2028. The one thing missing is the capacity to match it. Read more…

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Telstra and Converge to expand enterprise services in Philippines

May 19, 2022 Joana Bagano 0

Telstra partners with Converge ICT Solutions to offer its enterprise customers a wider range of services in the Philippines. Read more…

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African subsea cables controlled by Big Tech – what could go wrong?

May 13, 2022 John C. Tanner 0

Google and Meta’s African subsea networks are raising questions about how much control Big Tech should have over internet infrastructure. Read more…

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SX NEXT cable connecting Australia and US lights up in July

May 12, 2022 Staff Writer 0

Stakeholder Telstra says SX NEXT packs 72 Tbps of capacity and is the shortest subsea route connecting Australia to the US. Read more…

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Airtel backs new SEA-ME-WE 6, Maldives gov’t backs Jio’s IAX

February 22, 2022 Staff Writer 0

Airtel and Reliance Jio reveal separate deals involving two subsea cable projects – the new SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium and Jio’s IAX project. Read more…

Tonga gets voice back but internet connectivity at least a month away
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Tonga gets voice back but internet connectivity at least a month away

January 19, 2022 News Centre 0

Voice links between Tonga and the wider world are being reconnected, but restoring full internet connectivity could take a month or more. Read more…

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Tonga cut off from the world after volcano ruptures its only subsea cable

January 18, 2022 News Centre 0

Tonga could spend days, or even weeks, cut off from the rest of world because of difficulties in repairing its damaged subsea cable. Read more…

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Excluding Hong Kong leg of PLCN cable redraws SE Asia connectivity map

July 6, 2020 Guest Writer 0

Although not irreversible, the decision to exclude the Hong Kong leg of the 12,800 km PLCN cable is likely to remain amid US-China tech wars. Read more…

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FCC approves Google request to use part of US-Asia subsea cable

April 10, 2020 News Centre 0

The FCC has approved Alphabet Inc unit Google’s request to use part of an US-Asia subsea telecommunications cable. Read more…

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Seismologists use dark fiber to detect undersea earthquakes

December 3, 2019 John C. Tanner 0

Researchers say they’ve worked out a potential new use case for all the dark fiber crisscrossing the ocean floors – detecting undersea earthquakes. Read more…

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US-China subsea terror! The curious case of Dr Peng and PLCN

September 3, 2019 John C. Tanner 0

The US DoJ suddenly thinks the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) connecting LA and Hong Kong will compromise national security. It’s all about Dr Peng. Read more…

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Now Huawei is fiddling with your subsea cables, supposedly

April 23, 2019 John C. Tanner 0

An op-ed claims with no evidence Huawei is helping China spy on subsea cables. True or not, it’s an easy problem to fix – except the US opposes the solution. Read more…

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PCCW Global, Hengtong and Huawei get cracking on PEACE cable

October 26, 2018 News Centre 0

PCCW Global and Hengtong Group have signed a cooperation agreement to connect China to Europe and Africa via the Pakistan East Africa Cable Express (PEACE) undersea cable project, a new high-speed subsea cable system which Read more…

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US aims to block Huawei PNG project with competitive offer

September 28, 2018 News Centre 0

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The US is working on a counter-offer to stop Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from building internet infrastructure in Papua New Guinea, its top diplomat to Australia said on Friday. The bid Read more…

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Hawaiki deploys Ciena gear to boost capacity to 67 Tbps

September 25, 2018 News Centre 0

Ciena announced that carrier-neutral subsea bandwidth supplier Hawaiki Submarine Cable has deployed its GeoMesh Extreme solution based on Waveserver Ai and various packet-optical networking platforms to deliver connectivity to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands Read more…

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Vocus switches on ASC cable early as SMW-3 fails again

September 7, 2018 John C. Tanner 0

Vocus has confirmed that it has switched on its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) ahead of schedule – before final tests had been completed – following a major service disruption on the SEA-ME-WE3 (SMW-3) submarine cable Read more…

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Australia skunks Huawei again with PNG/Solomon Islands cable project

July 13, 2018 News Centre 0

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Pacific nations Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have signed on to a joint undersea internet cable project, funded mostly by Australia, that forestalls plans by Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Read more…

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