Rakuten Mobile, Inc. has announced to participate in the construction of a high-capacity fiber optic submarine cable to connect Hokkaido and Akita Prefecture, Japan. This is the first submarine cable project participated by the fourth mobile operator in Japan.

Hawaiki Submarine Cable Limited Partnership (Hawaiki) has announced the launch of Hawaiki Nui submarine cable system, the first and largest spatial division multiplexing (SDM) cable linking South-East Asia, Australasia and North America. Hawaiki has selected PT Mora Telematika Indonesia (Moratelindo) as its strategic partner for Indonesia. Hawaiki Nui cable project is expected to be ready for service in 2025.

Converge ICT Solutions Inc. (Converge) has completed its Domestic Submarine Cable Network (CDSCN) connecting the country’s major islands from Luzon to the Visayas and Mindanao to its national fiber backbone. The 1,800 kilometer subsea cable makes its final landing in Coron, Palawan on Sunday, October 31. According to Converge, it has invested 6 billion Philippine Peso (approximately US$120 million) in the project.

Nibble, Sparkle's pan-Mediterranean terrestrial optical network, was awarded the “Project of the Year - Terrestrial” in London at the Global Carrier Awards 2021. The “Project of the Year – Terrestrial” award acknowledged Sparkle’s expansion in Europe and in the Mediterranean with the deployment of Nibble, an ultra-long-haul photonic backbone linking Sicily with the major Points of Presence and data centers in Europe.

LUANDA, Angola, 20 October 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) has seen a considerable increase in traffic as major telco players look for direct access to markets in the US and South America.

CanArctic Inuit Networks Inc. and Bulk Fiber Networks A.S have signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation on joint infrastructure for the SednaLink and Leif Erikson submarine fiber-optic cable systems landing in Happy-Valley, Goose Bay, Canada. 

Announced back in September 2019, the new PEACE (Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe) submarine cable has now landed on the shores of Marseille. It will connect Europe to Asia via East Africa and will be commissioned in 2022.

Orange - the leading telecommunications operator in France – acting as the landing party for the PEACE cable in France has successfully completed the landing of the PEACE system in Marseille, and will supply and operate the cable landing station.

Superloop has entered into a binding agreement with Columbia Capital and DigitalBridge Investment Management, the investment management arm of DigitalBridge Group, to sell Superloop (Hong Kong) Limited and certain select assets from Superloop (Singapore) Pte Ltd for A$140 million.

Djibouti Telecom recently announced  that the company has started the construction of a New Cable Landing Station in Djibouti City. As a leading strategic center for international telecommunications services in East Africa, Djibouti Telecom has two existing cable landing stations, housing 8 operational submarine cable systems and 5 on-project cable systems.

Kingston, Jamaica – Wednesday 29^th September 2021. Digicelis making a significant investment in international submarine capacity with the build of its Deep Blue One subsea cable and has signed a partnership agreement with Orange to extend the system from Trinidad to French Guiana.

Oslo, Norway – September 29, 2021 — Bulk Fiber Networks, the Nordics’ leading provider of ultra-scalable, highly connected, sustainable digital infrastructure and fiber networks, announced completion of construction of their high-capacity HAVSIL submarine cable. Selected by the Norwegian Communications Authority as the new main secure fiber system for the nation’s international data traffic, the express route is the shortest connecting Norway with continental Europe.

This weekend Orange landed the “AMITIE” submarine telecommunications cable on a beach in the commune of Le Porge, near Bordeaux (Gironde). After two initial attempts were aborted due to unfavorable weather, the better conditions today allowed us to land the cable using an innovative technical process that protects the environment (horizontal directional drilling), a huge technological challenge that was successfully pulled off by the deployment teams. Orange is a partner in this 6,800 km state-of-the-art cable project, which will connect the state of Massachusetts (USA), Le Porge (France) and Bude (UK). Commissioning is scheduled for early 2022.

Tianjin, China – Sep. 27, 2021 – HMN Tech announced today that after considerable research and development it has completed a 32 fibre pair optical amplifier (repeater) prototype. This next-generation submarine product will achieve capacity transmission at a petabit-level, aligning with the rising demand for increased fibre count or SDM systems and the on-going requirements for greater SLTE transmission capabilities. Commercial release of a fully qualified product is targeted for 2022.

Oslo, Norway – September 8, 2021 — Bulk Fiber Networks is the Nordics’ leading provider of ultra-scalable, highly connected, sustainable digital infrastructure and fiber networks, announced the start of installation for the HAVSIL submarine cable express route between Kristiansand, Norway, and Hanstholm, Denmark.

According to Telxius, Google's Grace Hopper submarine cable connecting the United States with the United Kingdom and Spain has landed at Telxius' Sopelana cable landing station in Bilbao and will be connected to the Derio Communications Hub, also located near Bilbao and operated by Telxius/Telefonica.

According to HMN Tech, the world’s first 16-fibre-pair repeatered submarine cable system, Hainan to Hong Kong Express (H2HE) cable system has successfully completed system commissioning and testing and is now ready for service as of September 3, 2021.