
India telcos want landing stations for cables they don’t own
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…
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…
Bharti Airtel and Meta Platforms have entered into a broad partnership that spans across OpenRAN, subsea cable systems and CPaaS digital solutions. Read more…
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…
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…
Telstra partners with Converge ICT Solutions to offer its enterprise customers a wider range of services in the Philippines. Read more…
Google and Meta’s African subsea networks are raising questions about how much control Big Tech should have over internet infrastructure. Read more…
Stakeholder Telstra says SX NEXT packs 72 Tbps of capacity and is the shortest subsea route connecting Australia to the US. Read more…
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…
Voice links between Tonga and the wider world are being reconnected, but restoring full internet connectivity could take a month or more. Read more…
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…
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…
The FCC has approved Alphabet Inc unit Google’s request to use part of an US-Asia subsea telecommunications cable. Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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