Sparkle announced Wednesday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Libya Postal Telecommunication and Technology Holding Company (LPTIC), the Libyan state-owned telecom company operating in fixed, mobile and data telco services, concerning the building of a new submarine infrastructure connecting multiple landings in Libya to Sicily, and via Italy to Europe through Sparkle’s new BlueMed Submarine Cable (“BlueMed”). 

Japan announced Tuesday that it joined the United States and Australia in signing an agreement on a $95 million undersea cable project that will connect East Micronesia island nations to improve networks in the Indo-Pacific region where China is increasingly expanding its influence.

NEC Corporation (NEC) announced the signing of supply contract with FSM Telecommunications Cable Corporation (FSMTCC), based in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), BwebwerikiNet Limited (BNL) of the Republic of Kiribati, and Nauru Fibre Cable Corporation (NFCC) of the Republic of Nauru for construction, supply and installation of the East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS), which will connect four islands amongst FSM (Pohnpei and Kosrae), Kiribati (Tarawa) and Nauru with a total length of approximately 2,250km and a large-capacity optical fibre submarine cable. The EMCS project is funded by the Governments of Australia, Japan and the United States.

center3 announced the landing of the 2Africa subsea cable in Jeddah and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. center3 is a newly formed subsidiary of stc,  being the result of stc Group’s vision that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be the heart of all international data connectivity crossing and connecting three continents (Europe, Asia and Africa) and a data center hub for the MENA region.

Liquid Dataport, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid), a pan-African technology group, has launched its newest fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya, to Muanda on the west coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). This is the shortest route connecting East to West Africa, reducing data transmission latency by 20 milliseconds. The much anticipated 3,800km route marks a new era in East-West connectivity on the continent, adding to Liquid’s One Africa Digital Network, which now spans 110,000 km.

The European Commission will provided a total amount of nearly €150 million in financial support to 38 projects to deploy safe, secure and sustainable high-performance 5G and digital backbone infrastructure. The projects have been selected among 60 projects submitted under calls for proposals under Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital), the funding programme supporting European digital infrastructure.

The EU Commission granted AFR-IX telecom’s ATMED-DG (Atlantic-Mediterranean Data Gateway) project €7,79 million to finance the deployment of a pair of dark fibre between Lisbon, Zahara de los Atunes, Barcelona, Marseille and Mazara del Vallo on its Medusa cable system, a 8,700km strategic project to improve connectivity between the countries of the European Union.

EXA Infrastructure announced a partnership with Cinturion to connect its ultra-low-latency, high-speed connectivity digital infrastructure to Cinturion’s TEAS – Trans Europe Asia System which will be landed at a cable landing station in Pescara, Italy.

center3, a subsidiary of stc group, on behalf of the consortium partners of EMC Subsea Cable Company Ltd (EMC Company) and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), announced the signing of the supply contract for the construction of two subsea and terrestrial data cables (EMC West) that will connect Saudi Arabia with Europe. The second phase of the EMC System (EMC Global) that will connect Saudi Arabia with Asia is being finalised and announced soon.

DC BLOX, Inc. has announced that it has contracted for a second subsea optical communications cable, the Anjana cable,  to land at its Subsea Cable Landing Station (CLS) in the International Technology and Aerospace Park in Myrtle Beach ((MBiTAP)), South Carolina.

Orange Tunisia and Medusa Submarine Cable System signed an agreement on May 11 to deploy a submarine cable linking Tunisia (Bizerte) to Europe, via France (Marseilles). This cable will be built in compliance with the latest international standards and rules and will benefit the socio-economic participants in Tunisia.

Vocus has connected its new $100m submarine fibre cable that will position Darwin as a key digital hub for the Asia Pacific region. The new 1,000km cable links Vocus’ existing Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) which runs from Perth to Singapore with the existing North-West Cable System which runs from Darwin to Port Hedland. Combined, they form the new Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable (DJSC) system, stretching 7,700 kilometres between Darwin and Singapore, opening up low-latency connectivity into Asia for Australia’s North, particularly resources operators in the Pilbara. 

Farice, the main provider of international capacity from Iceland to mainland Europe, is leveraging Ciena's (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics, to support its recently launched IRIS cable system connecting southwest Iceland to Galway, Ireland, with onward connectivity to the UK, Denmark, and the Nordics.

Liquid Dataport, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, announced it has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg. This new route, including a breakthrough and unique fibre link across DRC between Goma and Kananga, provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud resources, and, most significantly, an alternative option in the event of a subsea cable outage between Kenya and South Africa.

Tamares Telecom, a leading fiber-based international communications and data service provider and network operator, a subsidiary of Aluma Infrastructure Fund and Grid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary, and the telecommunications vehicle of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, agreed to build ANDROMEDA, a subsea optical fiber cable system connecting Greece, Cyprus, and Israel. 

According to the FCC Report, Meta has filed an Application for a License to Land and Operate a Private Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable System Connecting Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with Santander, Spain, to be Known as the Anjana System, a new generation transatlantic subsea cable with 24 fiber pairs.