PNG Dataco Says Kumul Submarine Cable Network Lands in Bougainville By Telecompaper May 20, 2020 PNG Dataco says system one of the Kumul submarine cable network (KSCN) has been concluded with its landing in Arawa on Bougainville, reports The National. The 5,457km submarine cable connects the coastal provinces of the country from West Sepik to [...]
PNG DataCo Lands Kumul Submarine Cable in East New Britain By Telecompaper May 14, 2020 PNG DataCo, with its partners, has landed the Kumul Submarine Cable (KSCN) in Kokopo, East New Britain, reports The National. PNG Dataco CEO Paul Komboi said the province would become a stakeholder to a massive infrastructure that is expected to [...]
Emergent Chooses Arc as Lead Consultant for the Orient Express Cable Connecting the UAE and Pakistan Arc Press Release May 13, 2020 Arc brings decades of expertise and experience in the strategy, planning and deployment of high-performance networking across the MENA region Dubai, UAE, – Arc, a joint venture launched by du and Batelco, has [...]
2Africa: A Transformative Subsea Cable for Future Internet Connectivity in Africa Announced by Global and African Partners Telecom Egypt Press Release May 14, 2020 China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN Global Connect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC announced today that they will partner to build 2Africa, which will be the most comprehensive subsea cable [...]
Vodafone Australia and TPG Merger Receives FIRB Approval By Chris Duckett, ZDNet May 7, 2020 Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) announced on Thursday it has received approval from Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) for the telco to merge with TPG. Once completed, the merger of the two companies under the TPG moniker would create a AU$15 [...]
Vodafone and Avaroa Cable LTD Work Together To Get Ready For Manatua Cable Avaroa Cable Press Relase May 6, 2020 Manatua Cable construction is on-track Vodafone Cook Islands already connected to the cable in Rarotonga and Aitutaki Testing is underway Vodafone and ACL in commercial discussions RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS - Avaroa Cable Ltd and Vodafone [...]
HMN Kicks off Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express Cable HMN Press Release April 29, 2020 Tianjin - Huawei Marine Networks (HMN) today announced the kick-off of Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) Cable. The system, as the first high-capacity direct link from the African continent to the offshore islands of Cape Verde, is [...]
OPT New Caledonia Awards contracts to ASN and Intelia By Telecompaper April 23, 2020 OPT New Caledonia (OPT-NC) has selected ASN (Alcatel Submarine Network) for the construction and installation of the Gondwana-2 subsea cable linking New Caledonia to Fiji. The operator launched the tender process for the new international cable a year ago, to provide [...]
Wet Plant Manufacture & Integration of PEACE Cable System Delivered by HMN in Advanced Stages Huawei Marine Networks Press Release April 15, 2020 Huawei Marine Networks (HMN) and PEACE jointly announced that the manufacture and integration of the PEACE system is now in the advanced stages. The system will offer the lowest latency connecting China, [...]
Israel to Play Key Role in Giant Google Fiber Optic Cable Project By Amitai Ziv, Haaretz April 14, 2020 Israel will soon have a critical place on Google’s expanding global fiber optic network. The U.S. technology giant is planning a cable called Blue-Raman (the latter half named after the Indian Nobel Prize laureate Venkata Raman) [...]
