Facebook and Amazon Hoping FCC Will Approve New Cable By David Shepardson August 15, 2021 WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) have asked the U.S. government for approval to operate a new undersea data cable between the Philippines and California after China Mobile (0941.HK) agreed to exit the plan, a government agency said on Friday. [...]
PLDT Invests P7 Billion for New Trans-Pacific Cable to US, Japan By Ted Cordero, GMA News October 23, 2019 Telecommunications giant PLDT Inc. is investing $136.7 million or P7 billion in a trans-Pacific cable system linking to the US and Japan. In a statement on Wednesday, PLDT said the telco has finalized the technical and [...]
Bulk Infrastructure and Amazon Web Services Reach Agreement on Subsea Cable HAVFRUE to Deliver Core Trans-atlantic and Nordic Digital Infrastructure Bulk Infrastructure Press Release March 27, 2019 OSLO, Norway — Bulk Infrastructure, a leading industrial real estate and digital infrastructure provider in Norway, announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed an agreement for the [...]
KT Unit Wins SubCom's Submarine Cable Project By Kim Eun-jung March 11, 2019 SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- The submarine cable construction subsidiary of South Korean telecom company KT Corp. said Monday it has clinched a contract worth 9 billion won (US$7.9 million) to build part of a cross-border undersea cable system for a TE [...]
Telxius and Amazon Web Services Reach Agreement on Transatlantic Subsea Cable Marea Telxius Press Release January 19, 2019 Telxius and Amazon Web Services (AWS) sign an agreement for the cloud service provider’s use of a fibre pair on transatlantic subsea cable MAREA, the highest capacity submarine cable in the world. MAREA’s features include high capacity, [...]
NEC To Build The Bay To Bay Express Cable System NEC Press Release July 9, 2018 Tokyo, Japan – The Bay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE) consortium, composed of China Mobile International, Facebook and Amazon Web Services, signed an agreement with NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE:6701) to build a high performance submarine cable connecting Singapore, Hong [...]
By PLDT Press Release November 16, 2017 By end-2017, the total capacity of PLDT international submarine cable links (including non-Philippines terminating) will reach 4.497 Terabits per second (Tbps). This is a nearly 140% increase in capacity from end-2015, when total capacity stood at 1.889 Tbps. Moreover, further expansion programs to meet expected rapid growth in [...]
By Max Smolaks, DatacenterDynamics October 30, 2017 Submarine communications specialist TE SubCom is set to deploy a 14,000km cable system to link Japan, the US and the Philippines. The JUPITER project will rely on 400Gbps WDM transmission technology, delivering initial design capacity of 60Tbps. The project is funded by a consortium which includes NTT Com, [...]
By NTT Com Press Release October 30, 2017 TOKYO, JAPAN — NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TYO: 9432), announced today that as part of a consortium comprising SoftBank, Facebook, Amazon, PLDT and PCCW Global, it signed an agreement on 27 October to participate in [...]