According to Texius, Telefónica’s telecommunications infrastructure company, MAREA Cable landed at Arritera Beach in the Basque town of Sopelana, Spain on Tuesday. MAREA consortium members includes Facebook, Microsoft & Telxius.

According to Seaborn Networks, Seabras-1 cable landed in Brazil on Tuesday.

China Telecom Global (CTG) has announced the launch of 100G service capability via their terrestrial cable system to answer the soaring demands for big-bandwidth connectivity between Asia and Europe in collaboration with Russian operators. On the back of the launch of the Super TSR (Transit Silk Road), an ultra low latency terrestrial route via the China-Kazakhstan Gateway, this initiative further diversifies CTG's product portfolio along the Europe-Asia route, offering 147ms from Shanghai to Frankfurt and 159ms from Hong Kong to Frankfurt.

According to Superloop announcement on April 6, Superloop has acquired all the issued shares of SubPartners for US$2.5 million. SubPartners has just teamed up with AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, and Telstra to build the INDIGO cable system connecting Singapore, Indonesia and Australia. With the acquisition of SubPartners, Superloop has inherited its membership in the INDIGO consortium.

The INDIGO Consortium includes Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners, Telstra, and AARNet, which are teaming up to build the INDIGO cable system connecting Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.

Jakarta, Singapore, Sydney, 6th April 2017 – AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra today announced they have entered into an agreement with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to build a new international subsea cable system that will connect Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.

According to a blog by Brian Quigley, Director of Google Global Network Infrastructure, Google partners with AARNet, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra to build a new international subsea cable system in Southeast Asia, called INDIGO. The INDIGO cable system will serve Google traffic between Australia and Asia, connecting Perth, Sydney and Singapore, with a branch to Jakarta. 

According to VBN, Internet users in Vietnam will continue to experience slow connection speeds due to further delay on AAG cable repair, while the repair on the country’s other internet link, the Intra Asia (IA) cable, is ongoing.