Vanuatu Wants Australia To Fund Internet Cable Amid Growing China Fears By Andrew Greene, ABC and Catherine Graue, Pacific Beat June 22, 2018 Vanuatu's Prime Minister is expected to ask Australia to help fund a multi-million-dollar internet cable project when he meets Malcolm Turnbull next week. Concerns over China's rising influence in the Pacific remain [...]
Cinia Says C-Fiber Hanko Pledges Investment In Arctic Connect Project By Telecompaper June 21, 2018 Finnish ICT company Cinia said that C-Fiber Hanko will invest in the Arctic Connect project, exploring the idea of building a digital bridge between Europe and Asia via the Northeast passage. The project is run by Cinia and commissioned by [...]
St Helena Government Signs Final Financing Agreement With The European Union For Its Submarine Cable St Helena Government Press Release June 20, 2018 The St Helena Government is pleased to announce that today in Brussels at 2pm (GMT) SHG UK Representative, Mrs Kedell Worboys MBE, along with Director for Latin America & Caribbean, Directorate-General for [...]
GCX Announces India Landing and Completion of India Data Center for Eagle Subsea Network Global Cloud Xchange Press Release June 19, 2018 MUMBAI, India – Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM), today announced new milestones in its “Cloud & Fiber” initiative with the confirmation of its India Landing and completion of [...]
Vocus Scores AU$137m Subsea Cable Contract With Australian Government By Corinne Reichert, ZDNet June 19, 2018 Vocus has been awarded a AU$137 million contract by the Australian government to construct a telecommunications subsea cable system connecting Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. "Awarding the AU$136.6 million contract to delivery partner Vocus is a major [...]
Australia, Solomon Islands To Ink Huawei-Free Cable Contract Today By Richard Chirgwin, The Register June 13, 2018 Australia and the Solomon Islands will today ink a contract blocking Huawei from building the island nation's new submarine cable. The 4,000 km cable will connect the Solomon Islands to Papua New Guinea and then to Australia. Huawei [...]
Cabo Verde Telecom and EllaLink Sign An Agreement To Connect Cabo Verde To Europe And Latin America EllaLink Press Release June 12, 2018 PRAIA, Cape Verde and MADRID - Cabo Verde Telecom and EllaLink announce the signature of a binding Memorandum of Understanding to deliver subsea fibre connectivity to Cabo Verde. The EllaLink system, which will [...]
SEAX-1 Submarine Cable System Ready For Provisional Acceptance Huawei Marine Networks Press Release June 5, 2018 Tianjin, China - Super SEA Cable Networks Pte Ltd (SEAX), together with the supplier Huawei International and Huawei Marine Networks, today announced that following successful completion of construction and end-to-end testing, the SEAX-1 Cable System has achieved RFPA (Ready [...]
Savusavu Cable System Ready For Commercial Service By June 21 – PM By Fiji One TV May 29, 2018 The planned Savusavu cable system should be ready for commercial service by June 21st of this year. This was the confirmation by the Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama while addressing the Victorian Multicultural Sports Association Business Event [...]
TE SubCom Announces The ICN2 cable System Linking Vanuatu To Solomon Islands In Force TE SubCom Press Release May 31, 2018 EATONTOWN, New Jersey – TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company (NYSE: TEL) and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, today announced that a contract is in force to construct the ICN2 submarine [...]
