According to the Economic Times, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) of India has approved Reliance Jio's plan to build submarine cable systems for high-capacity and high-speed internet connectivity from Mumbai to Europe and Asia, i.e., India-Europe-Xpress (IEX) and India-Asia-Xpress (IAX). 

SubCom and Farice announced the completion of work on the IRIS Subsea Telecoms Cable System, connecting Galway, Ireland to Iceland and onwards to Denmark and the Nordics on existing Farice network. The provisional acceptance has been achieved, and the IRIS Cable System was formally handed over to Farice on Friday November 11th 2022.

Gold Data, a technology company founded in 2000 and headquartered in the US, announced Monday that it is building the first submarine cable system in the Gulf of Mexico which will connect Miami in Florida with strategic points in Mexico: Mexico City, Cancun, and Queretaro.

The 2Africa subsea cable had its first landing in Marseille on Sunday November 6, 2022, for its connection from Marseille to Barcelona. 2Africa is the first cable pulled through the Port of Marseille Fos submarine cable landing infrastructure, to be termiated at the InterXion MSR3 carrier neutral data center. Vodafone is the landing party for the 2Africa Marseille landing.

Vocus, Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, announced availability of Australia’s first commercial 400Gbps Wavelength Ethernet product connecting Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Teraco, Africa’s largest provider of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano subsea cable.

Equiano starts in Europe and runs along the West Coast of Africa, between Lisbon in Portugal and Cape Town in South Africa, with branching units along the way that can be used to extend connectivity to additional African countries.

WIOCC, a leading provider of digital connectivity and infrastructure across Africa, is working with Ciena to become the first operator to activate a fiber pair on the new Equiano submarine cable system.

PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd announced the submarine cable installation of the PEACE Cable System has been completed. PEACE has enabled the connections to France, Egypt, Pakistan and Kenya, and all these segments have achieved final splicing.

A consortium of telecommunication companies has signed agreements to invest about US$300 million (SG$420.8 million) for the Asia Link Cable (ALC), a submarine cable system in Southeast Asia that aims to boost data capacity in the region and upgrade local capacities. HMN Tech was selected by the consortium as the turn-key system supplier.

Lumen Technologies (Lumen) and Colt Technology Services (Colt) announced Wednesday they have entered into an exclusive arrangement for the proposed sale of Lumen's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business to Colt for $1.8 billion. This represents a very attractive multiple (~11x) for Lumen EMEA business's estimated 2021 adjusted EBITDA.

Inligo Networks announced the addition of a branching connection from its Asia Connect Cable (ACC-1) into Davao in the Philippines. Inligo Networks has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PLDT Inc. (PLDT) which will serve the Cable Landing Station (CLS) requirements of the Davao branch.

The Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat inaugurated Wednesday (Oct. 26, 2022), “Red2Med” new submarine cable of Telecom Egypt. He was accompanied by Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi and Telecom Egypt CEO and Managing Director Adel Hamed.

Mobily announced its investments in new submarine cables, terrestrial networks, data centers and internet exchange at the Capacity Europe 2022 Conference, which took place in London. The conference brought the carrier community together under one roof to discuss current and future partnerships, collaborative projects, and the transformation of the wholesale telecom ecosystem fueled by rapid digital transformation. Mobily was a Gold Sponsor at the event and announced and shared its infrastructure expansion initiatives with the carrier community.

An international consortium of companies formed a joint corporation to work towards development of a submarine fiber optic system connecting Asia and Europe through the Arctic. Far North Fiber, Inc., brings together Finland’s Cinia Oy, Alaska’s Far North Digital and Japan’s ARTERIA Networks Corporation. The team will promote a system that aims to realize a faster and more secure route directly connecting Japan, North America, and Ireland and Scandinavia.

PLDT Inc. announced Monday that they had started the initial phase of the construction of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) in Batangas. The ADC project is estimated to be completed by the end of 2023.

Meta announced Monday the arrival of the 2Africa submarine cable in Spain and the mooring of the cable in Sant Adrià de Besòs, east of Barcelona, in a partnership with AFR-IX telecom, the landing partner and the owner of the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS).