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.

According to Vietnannet, FPT Telecom will invest $87 million to participate in the Asia Link Cable (ALC) project.  The company’s Board of Directors has recently approved the investment plan for the ALC project, which will connect Vietnam to international destinations via an undersea fiber optic cable.

Collaborating with Vodafone, Intelvision landed the 2Africa submarine cable system in Seychelles on Thursday April 20, 2023. Intelvision became the first privately owned telecommunication company to venture into the construction and operation of its own submarine cable system. And 2Africa is the third subsea cable connecting Seychelles.

Sparkle announced the deployment of state-of-the-art C+L technologies - supplied by Infinera and Nokia - on its global optical terrestrial and subsea networks to further enhance its offering and meet the surging market demand worldwide. 

Valencia Digital Port Connect SL (VDPC) has announced to build a new submarine cable system connecting Spain with France and Portugal, the Barracuda Submarine Cable System (Barracuda SCS), and the first subsea cable landing station (CLS) at the Port of Alicante in Spain.

London, UK – 28 March 2023 – euNetworks Group Limited (“euNetworks”), a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive partnership agreement with Crosslake Fibre UK Limited (“Crosslake”), an international network provider and developer of unique subsea and terrestrial fibre networks. This partnership relates to Crosslake’s new CrossChannel Fibre system and gives euNetworks exclusivity to deliver ultra-low latency services between the United Kingdom and Madrid on this system to the financial services community. euNetworks has also agreed to a strategic relationship, enabling the sale of dark fibre services by euNetworks using the system.

Mauritius Telecom announced the landing of the T3 submarine cable in Baie Jacotet on Friday 24 March. The T3 cable system will be Mauritius Telecom's third international subsea cable, offering Mauritians a more reliable, robust and redundant network