Indian press reports are suggesting that the Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable systems project is expected to be completed by 2020.
A meeting of regional telecommunications leaders has approved the final stages of planning for the installation of the Manatua – One Polynesia Cable.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a self-sustaining US government agency that helps American businesses invest in emerging markets, has announced that it plans to work with Trans Pacific Networks (TPN) to support the world’s longest subsea telecommunications cable.
A new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) has been launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo, potentially bringing faster and more reliable internet access to the country.
A new ITU report reveals that over half the total global female population is still not using the internet.
Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy, has announced the expansion of its IP backbone reach in the Caucasus region with the opening of a new point of presence (PoP) in Yerevan, Armenia.
Connectivity provider Angola Cables and internet exchange (IX) operator DE-CIX have partnered to offer what the two companies describe as premium interconnection services to a variety of neutral IXs for operators and data centres across Latin America.
Reports from the press in Pakistan say that a submarine cable fault disrupted internet services in the country earlier this week.
The EllaLink Group and Telxius have signed a collaboration agreement for international subsea capacity and terrestrial connectivity in Latin America, including cable landing facilities in Fortaleza, Brazil.
The population of the Solomon Islands, a state consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, can soon look forward to the benefits of cable-led communications, according to the Solomon Islands Submarine Cable Company (SISCC).
Plans for a new cable system, which will directly connect Muscat, Oman, to Perth, Australia, have been announced. It will be called Oman Australia Cable (OAC).
Seacom’s submarine cable system briefly experienced what the company called “a service-affecting outage” earlier this week.
News reports from the Czech Republic press indicate that underuse of the country’s phone booths means that they will be dismantled or repurposed by 2020.
To improve broadband coverage governments need to update laws and regulations that are restricting funding and right of way acquisition, according to Chen KuanHong.
MainOne, which recently announced plans for a new data centre facility in Ghana, has made news again, this time in Cote d’Ivoire.
Cable operator Seacom has told South African press that it has lit up a one terabyte fibre line connecting Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Traditional approaches to driving internet network roll-out and uptake are failing to reach the remaining half of the global population still lacking online access, according to a new report issued by the ITU-UNESCO-founded Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.
For most people, islands in the Indian Ocean invoke the idea of luxury holidays on tropical beaches – the last place we would want to be interrupted by a business email.
Angola Cables and TM Global, the global and wholesale arm of Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), are planning a new subsea route that could deliver much lower latency levels between Asia and South America.
Orange, PCCW Global and PEACE have signed an agreement to deploy the new submarine cable PEACE Med, marking the arrival of the first Chinese private submarine cable in France.
Networking systems, services and software company Ciena has announced the completion of a ‘significant’ upgrade to the SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable system to support enterprise data exchange, internet TV, and online gaming.
Building a network across thousands of kilometres of diverse terrain in often tough weather may seem a big ask but it can be – and in fact has been – done.
Philippines-based PLDT has announced plans to build two new international submarine cables. The digital services provider is, it says, responding to an anticipated boom in data usage in the country, requiring improved global cabling capacity.
At the 2019 Data Center Optoelectronics Technology and Industry Summit, Huawei and industry chain partners jointly established the Next Generation SFP Multisource Agreement (NGSFP MSA) work group.
Recent news that Chile's Transportation and Telecommunications Ministry has awarded a US$3 million contract for an economic, technical and legal feasibility study for a Chile-to-China fibre optic cable is significant for a number of reasons.
Russian operator MegaFon has chosen Ericsson to develop a new nationwide transport network.
Gilat Satellite Networks has gained approval to enter the operational phase of a three-region telecom project in Peru.
CenturyLink and CBNL have partnered to extend the former’s global fibre footprint by making the latter’s portfolio of network services and managed solutions available to businesses across South America.
Leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has announced that it will implement and operate South Sudan’s first fibre broadband network.
Google has announced Equiano, a new private subsea cable that will connect Africa with Europe. Starting in western Europe, Equiano will run along the west coast of Africa, between Portugal and South Africa.
Lebanon-based news media has reported that the country is planning a new Internet submarine cable to link the country to Europe.
Lebanese fixed network services provider Ogero has become one of the first operators globally to run a commercial trial of Nokia’s Fixed Access Network Slicing (FANS).
Polish operator Vectra has signed a frame agreement to acquire more than 1000 of Teleste’s E8 1.2 GHz optical nodes, which will be delivered to Vectra by the end of Q1 2020.
Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) is partnering with Africa Development Solutions (ADS Group) to facilitate building fibre infrastructure backbone across Africa.
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