Global Marine Awarded Desk Top Study for Singapore India Gateway Cable System Global Marine Press Release September 8, 2020 Global Marine, a leading provider of subsea fibre optic cable installation and maintenance solutions to the telecoms sector, and part of the Global Marine Group, has been awarded the Desk Top Study (DTS) for the Singapore [...]
This Southern City Could Be India’s Second-Hottest Market for Data Centers By Jude Sannith, CNBC TV18 September 3, 2020 A combination of great location, cheaper construction costs and multiple submarine cable landing stations could make Chennai an ideal growth market for building data centres, a JLL study has revealed. JLL’s report on data centres in [...]
OLL and NEC Launch MIST Cable System Construction NEC Press Release August 21, 2020 Tokyo & Singapore - Orient Link Pte. Ltd. (OLL) and NEC Corporation (NEC) announced that they have signed an agreement to build the MIST Cable System (MIST). MIST will directly connect Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and India (Mumbai and Chennai) and deliver a design [...]
PM Narendra Modi to Inaugurate 2300-km CANI Undersea Cable Project to Boost Connectivity to Andaman & Nicobar Islands on August 10 By Zee News August 7, 2020 NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 2300-km undersea Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) project connecting Chennai and Port Blair on Monday (August 10, 2020). The PM will [...]
Google Announces $10bn Investment Fund to Digitize India By Alex Alley, Data Centre Dynamics July 14, 2020 Google and Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai announced the 'Google for India Digitization Fund,' worth $10bn. The funds will be invested over the next five to seven years. Googlization Fund Pichai announced the fund in a video message as [...]
High Speed Cable to Andaman & Nicobar Islands Gets Green Approval By James Barton, Developing Telecoms July 8, 2020 The Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable system project has received clearance from India’s National Board for Wildlife (NBWL). The initiative will provide fibre optic connectivity between eight islands of Andaman and Nicobar and the [...]
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) [...]
NEC Charts Global Growth by Appointing New CEO of Indian Business NEC Press Release April 1, 2020 New Delhi - NEC Corporation and NEC Technologies India today announced the appointment of Mr. Aalok Kumar as the new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NEC Technologies India, effective from today. This change reflects NEC Corporation's [...]
Facebook Eyes Multibillion-Dollar Stake in Reliance Jio By Anjli Raval, Tim Bradshaw and Benjamin Parkin, Financial Times March 24, 2020 Facebook is seeking to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in Reliance Jio, whose cut-price mobile internet service has attracted 370m Indians in just three years, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. Facebook was [...]
The Red Sea Line: The 1870 Cable from England to India 6By Bill Burns and Stewart Ash March 16, 2020 150 years ago this summer, on 6 June 1870, the final section of the first submarine cable from England to India, known as the Red Sea Line, was landed at Porth Curnow cove in Cornwall. [...]
