China is imposing strict permit requirements for access to underwater data infrastructure, citing concerns over spying by firms laying subsea internet cables, according to a report.
The 2Africa subsea cable, apparently the largest in the world, has been plugged into the Vodacom network facility in Gqeberha, South Africa.
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced a collaborative project with Meta to extend the 2Africa Pearls subsea cable, which connects Africa, Europe, and Asia, to India.
A consortium comprising six telcos will plough $300 million into yet another new cable system connecting Southeast Asia and China.
Incidents in the North Atlantic and southern France have led to speculation of deliberate sabotage of European communications links.
Southern Cross Cables says its NEXT submarine network is the most capacious yet to connect Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands, and the US.
The latest subsea cable designed to ease capacity constraints in East Africa has landed in Marseille, according to Orange, which will operate the landing station in the French city.
Recent developments in the subsea cable game suggest we’re moving towards a time when China and the US operate their own distinct internet backbones.
Google has been given permission to operate a subsea cable, connecting the US and Asia, but under several conditions, including that the cable cannot connect to Hong Kong.
The US Department of Justice is reportedly on the verge of putting the brakes on a Google and Facebook funded Pacific subsea cable over national security concerns over a Chinese partner.
Google has continued its cloud infrastructure quest with its first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable connecting Virginia Beach in the US to the French Atlantic coast.
Google has revealed it latest investment in its Asia-Pacific in its cloud infrastructure with the Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) Cable System to connect Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore.
China Telecom, China Unicom, Facebook, Tata Communications, and Telstra have all teamed up to sign a turnkey contract for the deployment of the Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) submarine cable network.
Google has started 2018 by splashing the cash on its cloud infrastructure business, with five new data centres to add to the map and three subsea cables.
A horde of big names has come together to build a high-capacity cable system that will connect Maruyama and Shima in Japan with Los Angeles in the USA and Daet in the Philippines.
A subsea cable outage in Southeast Asia has prompted analysts to note the central but underappreciated roles undersea cable networks play in global commerce.
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