stc Group has launched the first high-speed cable in the Red Sea, known as Saudi Vision Cable, through its landing in Jeddah on August 25, 2022.

Named Saudi Vision Cable, the project is inspired by the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.

Singapore, 25th August 2022 - Submarine Networks World, the largest annual gathering of subsea communications leaders in the world will once again convene in Singapore on September 7-8, 2022. This is the first in-person edition of the event since 2019 and marks the first time that the subsea communications community has been able to gather at scale since the pandemic.

PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd (PEACE Cable) announced on August 19 the completion of the construction and laying of PEACE submarine cable infrastructure in Pakistan together with Cyber Internet Services (Cybernet), the landing partner in Pakistan. The Pakistan-Egypt segment of PEACE has achieved final splicing, thus enabling connectivity from Karachi, Pakistan to Marseille, France ready for service.

On Monday, 8 August 2022, Google's Equiano subsea cable landed at the Melkbosstrand Cable Landing Station which is located about 35 km north of Cape Town, South Africa. Openserve acts as the landing partner in South Africa for the Equiano subsea cable.

Greece and Saudi Arabia agreed on the key terms of a joint venture to build the “East to Med data Corridor“ (EMC) project, a submarine and terrestrial cable connecting Europe to Asia. The EMC project will be developed by MENA HUB, owned by STC of Saudi Arabia and the Greek Telecommunication Telephony Satellite Applications (TTSA). The Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC) and the telecommunications provider of Cyprus CYTA will also have a share in the project.

Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announced Wednesday the activation of  spectrum capacity on Monet submarine cable system connecting Brazil to the United States. With this addition, Sparkle enhances its regional backbone providing five diversified routes between North and South America.

Telstra announced Wednesday that it had completed the acquisition of Digicel Pacific Limited, for US$1.6 billion (A$2.4 billion), backed by the Australian Government. Telstra contributed just US$270 million of equity to the deal, with the Australian Government shelling out the remaining US$1.33 billion through cheap non-resource loans and “equity-like securities”. Despite its comparatively slim contribution to the buyout, Telstra owns 100% of Digicel Pacific.

NTT announced Tuesday the launch of a new joint venture, Seren Juno Network Co., Ltd. (“Seren”) which has been founded to construct and operate “JUNO”, the new and largest trans-Pacific submarine cable system. The JUNO cable system will provide a system capacity of 350Tbps over 20 fiber pairs.

Zayo announced today the launch of its new Zeus subsea route connecting the UK and continental Europe via access points in Lowestoft, UK and Zandvoort, Netherlands. Zayo engineered Zeus to be the most dense, deeply-buried and robust cable available in the North Sea, and the route includes terrestrial backhaul connectivity to London and Amsterdam.

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Farice and Far North Digital (FND) have signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint marketing and sales agreement for fibre optic connectivity between Japan and Iceland.  Farice’s new IRIS submarine cable will provide connectivity between Iceland and Ireland, and FND’s new Arctic cable spans between Japan and Ireland. The parties have agreed to develop a connectivity exchange at their shared landing site in Galway, Ireland.  Through the exchange, customers will be able to buy direct connectivity between Japan and Iceland, linking the third largest economy in the world and Iceland, which has 100% green and sustainable electricity. 

Southern Cross Cables Limited (“Southern Cross”) today announced the launch of its Southern Cross NEXT (“NEXT”) cable, along with the implementation and testing of 400GbE services across the 15,840km network.

On Monday, Sparkle inaugurated the construction site for new cables to landing in Genoa, where BlueMed cable system and other cables will land. BlueMed is an integral part of Google's Blue & Raman Submarine Cable System project. The infrstructure and the landing of new cables will bring the Ligurian city back to the centre of the Mediterranean.

According to Bangladeshi news agency The Daily Star, Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company (BSCCL) released in a posting on the Dhaka Stock Exchange this week that the Board of Directors has approved the investment of $3.2 million (excluding VAT/Tax) to upgrade its SEA-ME-WE 4 capacity by 3,800 Gbps.

Paratus Group announced the landing of Equiano subsea cable in Swakopmund, Namibia on July 1^st, 2022. Paratus Group, together with Telecom Namibia, had been selected by Google to build the Swakopmund Cable Landing Station (Swakopmund CLS) for the Equiano subsea cable,  following the announcement in last February. Paratus Group acts as the landing party and completed the construction of the new Swakopmund Cable Landing Station in September last year.

PLDT announced to activate the transpacific Jupiter cable system by July, 2022. The Jupiter cable system has landed in the cable landing station in Daet, Camarines Norte, linking the Philippines to Japan and the United States. It will tripple PLDT's international capacity to 60Tbps.