Unitirreno Submarine Network S.p.A. (Unitirreno) announced Wednesday Contract-in-Force (CIF) for the construction of its new optical fiber submarine cable system in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Unitirreno submarine cable has a total cable length of approximately 1,030 kilometers, with its main trunk connecting Mazara del Vallo to Genoa (890km) and a branch to Rome (140km).

French Polynesian telecom operator ONATi, a subsidiary of the OPT French Polynesia Group, has selected Intelia and Ciena to increase the capacity of the Honotua international submarine cable to 300Gb/s and support an upgrade path to 5Tb/s of total capacity to rapidly address future growth.

Vodacom (Pty) Ltd (Vodacom) announced the landing of 2Africa subsea cable at its facility in Gqeberha (South Africa's Eastern Cape), to provide a gateway to direct international connectivity for faster, more reliable internet services in the country.

América Móvil and Telxius announced Tuesday the deployment of a new ultrahigh capacity subsea cable to link Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) with Boca Raton (US). The subsea cable system is named AMX3 by América Móvil and Tikal by Telxius, with an initial estimated capacity of 190 Tbps, to be supplied by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN).

Commercial 400GbE services has been available on the Southern Cross NEXT (SX Next) cable, between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. The 400GbE service runs on Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform.

Aqua Comms announced the successful acquisition of Openbyte Infrastructure Private Limited (Openbyte), an India-based licensed telecom company focused on providing neutral, open access landing solutions for submarine cables. The acquisition of Openbyte is key in supporting Aqua Comms’ global connectivity expansion plans, providing a carrier-neutral platform in India for Aqua Comms services.

Infinera announced Monday that Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent optical solution has been deployed to modernize and increase capacity on the trans-Pacific Unity submarine cable system. By upgrading to Infinera’s ICE6 solution, the Unity cable system will double capacity and deliver up to 7.4 Tbps per fiber pair.

China Telecom Global Limited (CTG) and SUNeVision jointly announced Friday that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) has officially landed at SUNeVision’s HKIS-1 Cable Landing Station (CLS) located at Chung Hom Kok. The ADC cable system will also have a City PoP at SUNeVision's MEGA Plus carrier-neutral data center at Tseung Kwan O (TKO) industrial park.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued the Consultation Paper on 'Licensing Framework and Regulatory Mechanism for Submarine Cable Landing in India'.

PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd announced Thursday that the under-construction section of PEACE Cable System has completed system-wide acceptance testing, and is now ready to go live for commercial use, providing international customers with a range of high-speed and low-latency connectivity services.

Cyta announced the signing of an agreement with the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications for the construction and maintenance of CADMOS-2, a new subsea telecommunications connection between Cyprus and Lebanon. The agreement was signed on Monday, 12^th December 2022 in Beirut. 

MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with the 2Africa consortium have landed the 45 000km 2Africa cable in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, South Africa. MTN GlobalConnect is the 2Africa landing party in both Duynefontein and Yzerfontein. The 2Africa cable connection will go live in 2023.

Medusa Submarine Cable System has chosen the new Orange cable landing infrastructure in Marseille to land the strategic route connecting Southern Europe and North Africa. Orange and Medusa Submarine Cable System are joining forces to offer an open and high-performance interconnection solution to all partner operators of the Medusa cable.

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) announced a collaboration with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) to provide cable landing station in Mumbai for the 2Africa Pearls subsea cable system, in addition to other cooperations.

Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA), the incumbent, state-owned telecommunications provider in Cuba, has signed an agreement with the French telecom operator Orange SA to build the Arimao subsea cable connecting Cuba with Martinique and onwards to the rest of the world. The agreement was signed about one week after the US had blocked the ARCOS-1 subsea cable to connect Cuba with the United States and other Caribbean countries.

Team Telecom, officially the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector, has recommended that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deny an application by ARCOS-1 USA Inc. and A.SurNet Inc. subsea cable system (ARCOS-1 Cable System) to modify the system by adding an additional segment directly connected to the United States through a new landing station in Cojimar, Cuba.