Infinera announced Monday that Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent optical solution has been deployed to modernize and increase capacity on the trans-Pacific Unity submarine cable system. By upgrading to Infinera’s ICE6 solution, the Unity cable system will double capacity and deliver up to 7.4 Tbps per fiber pair.

China Telecom Global Limited (CTG) and SUNeVision jointly announced Friday that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) has officially landed at SUNeVision’s HKIS-1 Cable Landing Station (CLS) located at Chung Hom Kok. The ADC cable system will also have a City PoP at SUNeVision's MEGA Plus carrier-neutral data center at Tseung Kwan O (TKO) industrial park.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued the Consultation Paper on 'Licensing Framework and Regulatory Mechanism for Submarine Cable Landing in India'.

PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd announced Thursday that the under-construction section of PEACE Cable System has completed system-wide acceptance testing, and is now ready to go live for commercial use, providing international customers with a range of high-speed and low-latency connectivity services.

Cyta announced the signing of an agreement with the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications for the construction and maintenance of CADMOS-2, a new subsea telecommunications connection between Cyprus and Lebanon. The agreement was signed on Monday, 12^th December 2022 in Beirut. 

MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with the 2Africa consortium have landed the 45 000km 2Africa cable in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, South Africa. MTN GlobalConnect is the 2Africa landing party in both Duynefontein and Yzerfontein. The 2Africa cable connection will go live in 2023.

Medusa Submarine Cable System has chosen the new Orange cable landing infrastructure in Marseille to land the strategic route connecting Southern Europe and North Africa. Orange and Medusa Submarine Cable System are joining forces to offer an open and high-performance interconnection solution to all partner operators of the Medusa cable.

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) announced a collaboration with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) to provide cable landing station in Mumbai for the 2Africa Pearls subsea cable system, in addition to other cooperations.

Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA), the incumbent, state-owned telecommunications provider in Cuba, has signed an agreement with the French telecom operator Orange SA to build the Arimao subsea cable connecting Cuba with Martinique and onwards to the rest of the world. The agreement was signed about one week after the US had blocked the ARCOS-1 subsea cable to connect Cuba with the United States and other Caribbean countries.

Team Telecom, officially the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector, has recommended that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deny an application by ARCOS-1 USA Inc. and A.SurNet Inc. subsea cable system (ARCOS-1 Cable System) to modify the system by adding an additional segment directly connected to the United States through a new landing station in Cojimar, Cuba.

NORDUnet has signed a Letter of Intent with Far North Fiber, Inc, expressing interest in one of the 12 planned fiber pairs in the Far North Fiber (FNF) Submarine Cable System between Norway/Finland and Japan. This could potentially also include other landing points pending interest from Research & Education Network organizations.

The European Union (EU) announced on November 24 that the European Commission signed an agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a €40 million EU grant to support high-speed fibre-optic connection under the Mediterranean as part of the “MEDUSA” project supported by the EU's Economic and Investment plan for the Southern Neighbourhood. And The EIB is expected to provide the debt finance for the infrastructure with a contribution of up to €100 million in loans.

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.