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Bermuda Act Boosts Hopes for Subsea Cable Industry

Act Boosts Hopes for Subsea Cable Industry By Scott Neil, The Royal Gazette February 18, 2020 Bermuda has put itself into the frame to be the first landing hub for submarine communication cables in the Atlantic. New cable systems are being planned, and the Submarine Communication Cables Act 2020, which was approved by MPs on [...]

Kieran Clark2020-02-18T10:04:09-05:00February 18th, 2020|Categories: State of the Industry|Tags: Bermuda, Fiona Beck, legal, regulation, submarine cable, telecoms|

FCC Amends Outage Reporting Requirements

FCC Amends Certain Aspects of Submarine Cable Outage Reporting Requirements By Womble Bond Dickinson, Lexology December 30, 2019 The Federal Communication Commission (FCC or Commission) has issued an Order on Reconsideration (Order) that reexamined and amended certain aspects of the submarine cable outage reporting requirements, outlined in the Submarine Cable Outage Reporting Order. The Commission [...]

Kieran Clark2020-01-06T09:55:27-05:00January 6th, 2020|Categories: State of the Industry|Tags: cable faults, FCC, regulation, reporting, submarine cable|