Zee News | December 1, 2024

Bangladesh’s Internet access was disrupted temporarily for three hours on the night of December 2 due to maintenance of the country's first submarine cable.

TelcoTitans | December 5, 2024

Orange and Telefónica‐backed Telxius are part of a new consortium that plans to build a subsea cable linking the Caribbean region with the USA, with funding also provided by the European Union (EU).

Devdiscourse | December 5, 2024

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) have established the International Advisory Body for Submarine Cable Resilience

China on Monday slammed Lithuania’s expulsion of three of its nationals amid an ongoing row over the involvement of a Chinese-registered cargo vessel in the cutting of undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea.

Sweden has sent a formal request to China to cooperate with an investigation into suspected sabotage over the sudden disruption of two submarine internet cables in the Baltic Sea earlier this month, after tracking data linked a Chinese ship to the incidents.

A Chinese commercial vessel that has been surrounded by European warships in international waters for a week is central to an investigation of suspected sabotage that threatens to test the limits of maritime law—and heighten tensions between Beijing and European capitals.

Sweden is attempting to get this week’s most talked about ship to move into its territorial waters as a diplomatic standoff continues over a recent cable outage. 

When cable cuts occur, whether submarine or terrestrial, they often result in observable disruptions to Internet connectivity, knocking a network, city, or country offline. However, two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, as we discuss below, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe.

On the same day that a submarine cable suspected of having been cut by a Chinese ship was repaired, two major telco bodies convened a submarine telecommunication cable resilience advisory board.

Light Reading | November 1, 2024

● Globe Telecom has been selected to provide a cable landing station in Davao for the Philippine segment of the Malaysia-US (MYUS) submarine cable system

○ 19,221 km cable, RFS mid-2028

○ It will be the first direct link between Malaysia and the US and will avoid disputed waters

○ 16 fiber pair system, ach with a minimum capacity of 15 Tbit/s, for a total initial capacity of 240 Tbit/s

● Hexa Capital Consultancy selected Globe Telecom as its local partner because of its experience in building the infrastructure for the Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN)

The Express Tribune | November 1, 2024

● The country's telecom regulator has announced that internet service in Pakistan has been fully restored following repairs on the SMW-4 submarine cable

○ Faults in the SMW-4 and AAE-1 submarine cables were identified and addressed

■ The faults occurred in June and August respectively

■ A shortfall of 1750 Gbps has been resolved

Indian Web 2 | November 3, 2024

● Vodafone Greece has successfully connected the island of Crete to the India-Europe-Xpress (IEX) subsea cable system

○ New landing station in Tympaki on Crete’s southern coast

■ Helps to diversify the network, as most cable landings are on the northern end of the island

○ The IEX cable system spans nearly 10,000km and connects Mumbai to Europe

Irish Independent | October 24, 2024

The decision to grant Amazon a foreshore license for the construction of a subsea fibre optic cable system off the coast of Wexford has left one local councillor asking how this agreement will benefit the people of the local area.

Business Wire | October 24, 2024

Hexa (owner of the MYUS cable) appointed GTA in Guam as the U.S. Landing Party for MYUS

Data Center Dynamics | October 24, 2024

Meta Is Reportedly planning to build a new around-the-world subsea cable, running from one side of the US to the other, via the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.

October 19, 2024

EllaLink and SPLANG of French Guiana have begun the construction of the EllaLink cable extension to Cayenne, French Guiana.

October 16, 2024

Sparkle will join the MANTA project as a new partner, with Liberty Networks and Gold Data. MANTA will provide high-capacity and low-latency routes between Mexico, Panama, Colombia, and the United States.

October 16, 2024

Between perceived Chinese encroachment in the region, the complex national regulations that control the authorisation of repairs, and the crippled state of the cable-maintenance industry, cables are both a boon and an inescapable vulnerability for Asia-Pacific states.

itnews | October 2, 2024

The federal government has handed $51 million to US firm Manta Ray Solutions LLC to develop a new Pacific subsea cable. Forming part of Google’s Central Pacific Connect initiative, the cable will land at Funafuti, Tuvalu

BNN Bloomberg | October 2, 2024

Italy has made a new offer for Telecom Italia SpA’s Sparkle submarine cable unit. The bid is valued at 700 million euros (774 USD)