Cook Islands International Submarine Cable Connection Arrives in Rarotonga Avaroa Cable Press Release January 11, 2020 Cable comes ashore at second attempt in complex engineering operation following Tropical Cyclone Sarai Manatua One Polynesia fibreoptic cable will connect Rarotonga to Samoa, Tahiti and Aitutaki The 3600km cable will be Ready for Service May 2020 RAROTONGA, COOK [...]
Mukesh Ambani-owned Jio to Deploy New Submarine Cable Systems By Muntazir Abbas, ETTelecom January 9, 2020 NEW DELHI: The oil-to-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) telecom arm Jio will be deploying two submarine cable systems connecting Singapore and Europe, taking high-bandwidth connectivity from America’s western and eastern coasts allowing higher data speed to Indian Internet [...]
GCX to Emerge From Chapter 11 Bankruptcy After Rescue Plan By Antony Savvas, Data Economy November 11, 2019 The company has shelved any separate sale of the company, with its largest secured lenders instead taking over the reins while also lending further. Bankrupt Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has announced that “after completing the initial phase [...]
Manatua Consortium Summit Gives Green Light to Start Cable Lay SubCom Press Release November 7, 2019 New submarine cable system will be the first in Cook Islands and Niue Unique international collaboration to transform regional speed, resilience and affordability Landings in Tahiti and Bora Bora, French Polynesia; Rarotonga & Aitutaki in Cook Islands; Niue and [...]
RCom CEO Bill Barney Steps Down By The Hindu Business Line September 25, 2019 Bill Barney has stepped down as the CEO of Reliance Communications. Barney will now focus entirely on the restructuring of Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), the Anil Ambani company's submarine cable subsidiary, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection. Barney is currently the Chairman [...]
RCom’s Subsea Division, GCX, Files for Bankruptcy By Chris Kelly, Total Telecom September 16, 2019 The move comes as GCX missed repayments on $350m bonds GCX Ltd, the subsea cabling subsidiary of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications (RCom) conglomerate, has announced that it is to file for bankruptcy. The move comes after GCX missed payments of [...]
SubCom Reliance Completes Successful Repair of Tonga Cable System SubCom Press Release February 15, 2019 EATONTOWN, N.J., USA – SubCom, the leading global partner for undersea data transport, today announced that its cable ship SubCom Reliance successfully completed the repair of two Tongan submarine cables. The Tonga Cable and the Tonga Domestic Cable were damaged [...]
RCom-GCX, PrimeTel Strengthen Partnership To Upgrade Subsea Cable System By Muntazir Abbas, India Times May 8, 2018 NEW DELHI: Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCom) and Cyprus-based telecom service provider PrimeTel Tuesday further enhanced their partnership with a 100Gbps upgrade to GCX’s HAWK subsea cable system branch into Cyprus. This network [...]
By Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited Press Release June 29, 2017 Mumbai, India - Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (Jio), the largest 4G and mobile broadband digital services provider in India, announces the launch of the Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1) submarine cable system. AAE-1, the longest 100Gbps technology based submarine system, will stretch over 25,000 km from Marseille, France [...]
By 4-traders June 15, 2017 Billionaire Anil Ambani's Indian operator Reliance Communications is again trying to find buyers for submarine cable subsidiary Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) and has taken the initiative to contact CITIC Telecom International. Reliance Communications is trying to further divest its assets to pay off its debts and contacting potential buyers for [...]
