Telxius announced it joins Google on the Firmina subsea cable system. Firmina will connect the East Coast of the USA to Las Toninas (Argentina), with additional landings in Praia Grande (Brazil) and Punta del Este (Uruguay). Telxius will subsequently host Firmina in its Santos digital hub in Brazil.

The Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes, facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between the East and West for more than 1,500 years. Now a leading Iraqi fiber optic provider has launched its own 21^st century version – The Silk Route Transit Network.

The European Union has funded a grant of € 9 744 100,00 for a three-year SUBMERSE project, the "SUBMarine cablEs for ReSearch and Exploration" (SUBMERSE) programme, aiming to make available to the scientific community, civil society and industry, data from continuous observations on several submarine fibre optic cables, using technologies such as polarization state detection (SOP) and digital acoustic sensing (DAS) 

The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced the singature at the Global Gateway Forum 2023 of a EUR40 million investment grant provided by the European Commission on the  the €342 “MEDUSA” submarine cable project. The agreement was signed between the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB), GÉANT as the coordinator of the European National Research and Education Network, and AFR-IX who will be executing the  “MEDUSA” submarine cable project, which is the EC’s first digital Global Gateway project, aiming to connect North Africa and the European Union with a high-capacity fiber optic submarine cable system.

Google has announced plans for the South Pacific Connect initiative, which will deliver two new transpacific subsea cables — Honomoana and Tabua —which will connect Fiji and French Polynesia to both the United States and Australia, and help increase the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity in the Pacific.

Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has announced the South Pacific Connect Initiative, a significant milestone in reducing the digital divide and enhancing the capacity, resilience and reliability of digital connectivity across the Pacific. The initiative will establish a new subsea cable to link the United States, Fiji, Australia, and French Polynesia. 

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) announced the award of a grant to Tuvalu Telecom Corporation (TTC) for a feasibility study to support the development of the Central Pacific Cable, a 15,900-kilometer subsea cable between Guam and American Samoa that will provide new or expanded connectivity to up to 12 Pacific Island countries.

BW Digital Pte. Ltd. (BW Digital) announced that its subsidiary, Hawaiki Nui Submarine Cable LP, has signed contracts with the Australian Government to enhance international connectivity throughout the Pacific region. The Autralian Government released later that the contracts amount to AU$37.3million in a total. 

EXA Infrastructure announced it has added a fifth transatlantic route to its network footprint with the addition of the Dunant cable, connecting the US and Europe via a southern corridor across the Atlantic.

KKR, a leading global investment firm, and the parent company of OMS Group (or the “Company”), a leading telecom infrastructure company and provider of subsea cable services, today announced the signing of definitive agreements under which KKR will commit $400 million in a tailored solution for OMS Group.

Telxius announced to extend its ultrahigh capacity subsea cable Tikal to land in Cancun (Mexico). Tikal was announced jointly by Telxius and America Movil in January 2023 to connect Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) to Boca Raton (United States). Telxius will now lead independently, on its own, the extension project to Cancun and the related supply contract is already in force with ASN.

In a blog post written by Brian Quigley, VP, Global Network Infrastructure of Google Cloud, Google officially announced to build Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable system to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the United States. Google hasn't released technical details about the Nuvem cable system which is expected to be supplied by SubCom.

SUNeVision Holdings Ltd. (“SUNeVision”), the number one data centre provider and connectivity hub in Hong Kong, and HKBN Group (“HKBN”), the leading integrated telecom and ICT solutions provider, announced on 29^th October 2023 the commencement of operations of their joint-investment subsea cable system, TKO Connect. TKO Connect represents a significant milestone in next-generation subsea fibre cable systems as it enables ultra-reliable and seamless interconnection between the MEGA-i and MEGA Plus high-tier data centres in Hong Kong.

NEC Corporation has successfully completed a long-distance field trial of 800 Gpbs on Telin's Indonesia Global Gateway (IGG) submarine cable system, achieving wavelength division optical transmission of 800 Gbps optical signals over 2,100 km, the longest ever recorded.

TM Global announces its participation as a consortium member of the Asia Link Cable System to boost submarine cable capacity from Malaysia to Asia. 

TM Global, the domestic and international wholesale business arm of TM, solidified its commitment to advancing Malaysia’s digital landscape by announcing its recent participation as a consortium member of the Asia Link Cable System (ALC).  This strategic move positions Malaysia as one of the key destinations connecting Malaysia to Hong Kong SAR.

Cinturion Corp Ltd., a global provider of scalable, subsea and terrestrial capacity-based network solutions, announced that it has executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement with du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), one of the leading providers of fixed line, mobile, internet and digital services across the UAE. The partnership will deliver new diverse routes to du customers to meet the ever-growing demand in the region and bring an open-access Cable Landing Station (CLS) to UAE’s economic, social and digital transformation.