SubTel Forum Magazine #144 – Offshore Energy – OUT NOW!

SubTel Forum Press Release
September 15, 2025

What's Inside:

SubTel Forum is proud to release Issue 144 of the Submarine Telecoms Forum Magazine. This edition highlights the theme of infrastructure resilience, featuring an exclusive conversation with IWCS Cable & Connectivity Industry Forum CEO/Director David Kiddo and a preview of the IWCS 2025 agenda. Feature coverage spans prize-winning research on digital infrastructure, Batam’s rise as a digital hub, and West Africa’s fragile backbone. Readers will also find in-depth analysis on detecting human activities near cables, managing offshore wind and telecom coexistence, geopolitical and policy currents, and new opportunities through fiber-optic sensing. Additional features include reflections from Valentia Island’s cable station, insights into unrepeatered growth, and the launch of the Cableship Codex. Department sections round out this issue with interactive cable map updates, analytics, regulatory topics, and career developments, offering a comprehensive perspective on today’s subsea landscape.

STF Exclusive:

• 8 Questions with David Kiddo: A conversation with IWCS Cable & Connectivity Industry Forum’s CEO/Director about the submarine cable industry and what to expect at IWCS 2025.
• IWCS 2025 Agenda: A preview of the October 27–30 event.

Feature Articles:

• Back-to-School: Certificate in Global Digital Infrastructure Article Competition Winners by Nicole Starosielski and Michael Brand
• Batam at the Cloud Edge: From Transit Corridor to Digital Hub by Jessica Halim
  The Digital Divide Won’t Close Itself (I Checked) by Emma Stevens
• What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Reconnecting with History at Valentia Island Cable Station by Wayne Nielsen
• The Fragile Backbone of West Africa’s Digital Infrastructure by Henry el Bahnasawy
• Hands Off Our Cables! Detecting Human Activities Around Submarine Cables by Geoff Bennett
• How MOFN Unlock Opportunity for Telcos and Hyperscalers by Martin Reilly
• Decoding the Fleet: Launching the Cableship Codex – A New Era of Cableship Intelligence by Kieran Clark
• Optical and Submarine Cable Sensing: A Brief Overview by Derek Cassidy
• Undersea Currents: How Geopolitics and Policy Are Reshaping Submarine Cables (Sep 2024–Sep 2025) by Kristian Nielsen
• Emerging Offshore Wind Cable Markets in South America and Africa by John Manock
• Crossed Paths: Managing Telecom Cable, Offshore Wind Energy, and Fishing Interests on the U.S. Seabed by Sarah Hudak and Ron Larsen
• Sensing the Seabed: How Fiber-Optic Sensing Technologies Are Protecting Critical Submarine Infrastructure by Anders Tysdal

And more forward-looking insights from SubTel Forum…

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Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
We would like to extend a special thank you to our sponsors for this issue. Your support helps us continue our mission to provide timely, relevant, and impactful coverage of the submarine telecoms industry.

• APTelecom
• IWCS Cable & Connectivity Industry Forum 2025
• Southern Cross
• WFN Strategies