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By Winston Qiu The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) released on Tuesday a new legislation to formally extend the boundary of the Southern Sydney Submarine Cable Protection Zone. Google's Tabua cable will be the southernmost cable in the zone.
By Winston Qiu Submarine cables around Taiwan are frequently damaged. The legislature of Taiwan has passed the first reading of the draft amendment to the "Seven Submarine Cable Laws". Intentional damaging submarine cable would be punished with imprisonment of up to seven years and the offending vessels can be confiscated.
By Winston Qiu Helsinki District Court ruled in early October that it didn't have jurisdiction over damage to undersea power and data cables in the Gulf of Finland allegedly caused by the captain and two officers of the Russia-linked oil tanker Eagle S. The Finnish state has to pay the defendants' legal fees, a sum of around 195,000 euros.
By Winston Qiu The European Commission has published a report that includes mapping, risk assessment and stress testing of the EU's submarine cable infrastructures.
By Winston Qiu Finland has formally charged senior crew members of a Russia-linked Eagle S oil tanker suspected of damaging subsea gas and telecommunications cables between Finland and Estonia in late 2024. The incident, which occurred amid heightened tensions in the Baltic region following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, raised immediate concerns over the security of Europe’s critical undersea infrastructure.
By Winston Qiu On August 7, 2025, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted and adopted the Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) on submarine cable landing license rules, to unleash the buildout of secure submarine cable infrastructure and prevent espionage or sabotage by restricting foreign involvement (especially Chinese firms) in cable projects linking the US to global networks.
By Jovann Leung An international research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Japan)—in collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Stuttgart (Germany), and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Electric, Japan)—has announced a new world record, achieving 1.02 petabits per second (Pbps) over a distance of 1,808 kilometers of optical fiber with 19-core optical fiber.
By Winston Qiu On July 21, 2025, three members of the US House of Representatives sent a signed letter to CEOs of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, probing whether the subsea cable systems that each company maintains direct or indirect operational involvement with contain components produced, maintained, or repaired by entities affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), such as S.B. Submarine Systems (SBSS), Huawei Marine, China Telecom, or China Unicom, or the Russian Federation.
By Winston Qiu According to Reuters, the insurance cost of shipping goods through the Red Sea has more than doubled in recent days after Yemen's Houthis attacked and sank two ships, killing at least four seafarers after months of calm. War risk premiums have risen to around 0.7% of the value of a ship, from around 0.3% before the latest attacks took place, with some underwriters pausing cover for some voyages.
By Winston Qiu The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released on Wednesday (July 16) a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), taking further actions and measures on the proposed Review of Submarine Cable Landing License Rules and Procedures. The FCC FNPRM includes a ban on companies that use certain Chinese technology and equipment from building submarine communication cables that connect to America.
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