India at the Center of Two New Subsea Cable Systems to Support Exponential Data Growth Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. Press Release May 17, 2021 Jio’s IAX and IEX Projects to Address Region’s Data Revolution Mumbai, 17th May 2021: Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (Jio), India’s leading 4G and mobile broadband digital service provider, is constructing the [...]
New Submarine Cable To Connect Kochi and Lakshadweep Islands The government on Wednesday approved provision of submarine optical fibre cable connectivity between Kochi and Lakshadweep Islands, entailing a cost of Rs 1,072 crore. By India Times December 9, 2020 New Delhi: The government on Wednesday approved provision of submarine optical fibre cable connectivity between Kochi and Lakshadweep [...]
Third submarine cable approved by Government of Bangladesh December 2, 2020 The government on Tuesday approved a project proposal for the third submarine cable connection, SEA-ME-WE-6, at a cost of Tk 693.16 crore. The approval was given in a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina chaired meeting [...]
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) [...]