Zain Group announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Zain Global Connect (ZGC) is connecting the Middle East with Europe through the Jeddah to Marseille (J2M ) submarine cable system. The J2M cable system will be a subsystem of the PEACE cable system, and Zain Saudi Arabia will act as the cable landing party in Jeddah, Suadi Arabia.

Infinera and PCCW Global announced on Tuesday the completion of a significant deployment on the PEACE cable system between Marseille (France), Yeroskipou (Cyprus) and Abu Talat. Utilizing Infinera’s ICE technology, PCCW Global now offers network operators the ability to significantly increase capacity per fiber pair up to 25Tbps on these critical Middle East and Mediterranean fiber routes.

Cyta announced on Wednesday (March 30) the start of operations on the ARSINOE optical fiber subsea cable system, which will cover the country’s increased need for international connectivity in crucial areas, especially for Internet and Cloud services. It reinforces security on alternative routing of digital communications between Cyprus and the rest of the world and responds to the need for services that require a brief delay in data transmission.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) has announced it has acquired a fibre pair on the Equiano subsea cable, allowing Liquid to transport traffic up to 12 Terabits, bringing a much-needed increase in international connectivity in Western and Southern Africa.

Telkom Kenya and the PEACE Cable company have successfully landed this new submarine cable in Mombasa. The PEACE Cable becomes the sixth submarine cable landing in Kenya.

According to Ciena, the EASSy submarine cable network has been upgraded to a system capacity of 36Tbps, leveraging Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optical technology. This upgrade will help EASSy satisfy surging digital demands regionally, as well as cost-effectively improve connectivity to Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

PCCW Global and PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd (PEACE Cable International) have jointly announced on Monday the completion of the PEACE cable system’s Mediterranean segment (PEACE-MED), which is now ready to provide a range of high-speed and low-latency connectivity services for international customers.

Aqua Comms announced on March 25 the successful launch of CeltixConnect-2 (CC-2) and North Sea Connect (NSC) as part of its ownership of the Havhingsten cable system.

On Monday, March 21, the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte signed the law Republic Act No. 11659 amending the 85-year-old Public Service Act (PSA), allowing foreigners to fully own companies in the telecommunication, shipping, airline, railway, toll road, and transport network vehicle industries. Previously, these industries had a 40% cap on foreign equity, as they were considered public utilities.

Google and CSQuared announced that the Equiano subsea cable system has landed in Lomé, Togo, marking the cable's first stop along Africa's Atlantic coast. The Equiano cable will run from Portugal along the West Coast of Africa — connecting Europe to Togo, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa, and St. Helena. The Togolese company CSquared Woezon is the landing partner in Togo for Google's Equiano cable system.

SUNeVision Holdings Ltd. (SUNeVision), the number one data centre provider and connectivity hub in Hong Kong, announced that the company has won the tender for a site in Chung Hom Kok, Hong Kong. This site will be used to develop SUNeVision’s second cable landing station at Chung Hom Kok, following its first cable landing station nearby, “HKIS-1”, launched last year. 

The Seychelles Cable Systems Company Ltd (SCS) landed the Pakistan East Africa Cable Express (PEACE) at Perseverance Island in the Seychelles in early March. The PEACE cable system is expected to be ready for service in May. The PEACE cable system is now the second international subsea cable connecting the Seychelles, in addition to the existing Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) submarine cable system connecting the Seychelles to Tanzania.

Etihad Etisalat Company (“Mobily”) announced its participation in the Southeast Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) consortium. Mobily will land SEA-ME-WE 6 at Mobily’s new international cable landing station in the city of Yanbu. 

According to Qatar News Agency, Vodafone Qatar has launched an international subsea cable station for the 2Africa Pearls cable system. Vodafone Qatar has signed a 20 year agreement with (stc) Saudi Telecom Company - member of the 2Africa consortium. Under the agreement, Vodafone will build and operate an exclusive subsea cable station for the 2Africa Pearl cable system.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Monday, Converge  ICT Solutions, Inc ("Converge") said it has become a party to a construction and maintenance agreement (C&MA) for the South-East Asia-Hainan-Hongkong Express Cable System ("SEA-H2X"), from Singapore to Hong Kong, with branches to Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hainan (China), etc.