Regional Trade Boost for Cyber, Digital and Data By Denham Sadler, InnovationAus November 16, 2020 Australia’s new trade agreement with 14 Indo-Pacific countries comes with a focus on telecommunications, e-commerce, cybersecurity and the flow of data across borders. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement was signed by Australia and 14 Indo-Pacific countries, including China, Japan, [...]
Japan, US and Australia to Finance Undersea Cable for Palau By Yohei Hirose, Nikkei Asia October 28, 2020 TOKYO -- Japan, the U.S. and Australia will finance the connection of a submarine internet cable to the Pacific island nation of Palau, Nikkei has learned, in a project meant as a counterweight to China's growing economic influence [...]
PTC’21: New Realities Is All Online By Pacific Telecommunications Council October 27, 2020 PTC’21: New Realities from 17 to 20 January 2021 will now be held only online. A first-of-its-kind experience, PTC’s Annual Conference will embrace the opportunity for attendees and participants to gather as a virtual community, network, learn, and have some fun. As the strategic [...]
Bridging the Gaps: Submarine Fibre Optic Cables Around the Pacific Region By John Hibbard and Paul McCann July 20, 2020 Some 12 months ago we provided readers with an outline of the excellent progress that is being made in building the mesh of submarine fibre optic cables around the Pacific Region (“Lighting up the Pacific” [...]
Asia Direct Cable Consortium to Build New Asia Pacific Submarine Cable NEC Press Release June 11, 2020 Tokyo – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Consortium is building a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The [...]
U.S.-Japan Dueling China for Influence in Indo-Pacific Region By The Asahi Shimbun June 1, 2020 On a weekday afternoon, the square in front of the Kenya National Archives in the capital of Nairobi is teeming with people waiting for buses, young couples out on dates and others getting off work. Looming a few meters overhead, mushroom-like [...]
HAWAIKI, ASH and ASTCA Join to Form New Broadband Alliance in the Pacific Hawaiki Press Release May 28, 2020 New alliance to future-proof Pacific connectivity and boost capacity for American Samoa Pacific business and communities secure valuable peace of mind Agreement lays foundations for further collaboration between Hawaiki and regional carriers AUCKLAND, New Zealand - [...]
Mobile Carrier Digicel Offers Pacific Business As Security in Restructuring By Kirsty Needham, Reuters May 15, 2020 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Jamaica-based telecommunications company Digicel Group DCEL.N has offered its Pacific business as security to creditors in a debt restructuring, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows. The SEC filings showed Digicel Pacific as a [...]
Google Set to Use US-Taiwan Undersea Cable By Chris Chang, Taiwan News April 9, 2020 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Google's plan to use a U.S.-Taiwan undersea telecommunications cable on Wednesday (April 9), but banned the section between the U.S. and Hong Kong. U.S. authorities allowed Google to operate [...]
A Message to the PTC Community Pacific Telecommunications Council Announcement March 23, 2020 To our PTC Community, Connections. This word embodies who we are and what we do at Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). This time more than ever, the entire world is coming together and connecting in a way that we never imagined. The global [...]