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.

Colt Technology Services became the first provider to deploy 800G technology in the L-band across a terrestrial network. This was attained using Ciena’s Reconfigurable Line System (RLS), WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics, and Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller.

According to the Port of Marseille Fos, Cinturion Corp Ltd ("Cinturion") and the Port of Marseille Fos have signed an agreement to land the Trans Europe Asia System (TEAS) in Marseille throught the Port of Marseille Fos submarine cable landing infrastructure.

Telecom Egypt and AFR-IX Telecom have signed a landing party agreement for the landing of the largest Mediterranean submarine cable system, Medusa, in Egypt. The agreement was signed during the Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona by the Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, Mr. Adel Hamed and Norman Albi, CEO of AFR-IX Telecom and Medusa.