According to Nasdaq news, Investment firm KKR said on Monday it would acquire a majority stake in telecoms operator Telefonica Chile's fiber optic network in a deal valued at about $1 billion. 

According to  Cabo Verde Telecom (CVTelecom), the Ellalink subsea cable landed in Cape Verde on Feburary 18, 2021. The Ellalink cable mooring took place at Portinho beach, in Achada Grande Trás, in the municipality of Praia.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX), a leading interconnection hub, has seen network data traffic passed by its members across its multiple peering LANS grow substantially over the last year.

On the exchange’s primary LON1 platform in London, data traffic has increased by well over 40%. The figure is closely reflected across all of LINX’s interconnection hubs, both in the UK, and the US. Indeed, all LINX LANs have set traffic records since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Paratus, Paratus and Telecom Namibia have signed an unprecedented agreement to land the Equiano subsea cable in Namibia. Paratus and Telecom Namibia co-invest on the Equiano subsea cable project, while Paratus is the landing party. The Equiano subsea cable will provide Namibia with the necessary redundancy.

According to EllaLink, the next generation low-latency Ellalink submarine cable system landed in Sines in early January, 2021. The Ellalink cable system is expected to become fully operational in the second quarter of 2021, providing an unprecedented level of international connectivity between Europe and Latin America.

Ocean Networks (ONI) confirms the launch of its Caribbean Express (CX) cable project, to build a carrier neutral subsea cable system connecting Points of Presence between West Palm Beach (Florida) and Balboa (Panama) with branch connections to Mexico and Columbia. In addition, the system will have future connectivity to Cuba, Grand Cayman, Guatemala, Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

AARNet, Australia’s Academic and Research Network, announced recently the launch of high-bandwidth services delivering one terabit per second on the AARNet spectrum of the new Japan-Guam-Australia South cable system (JGA South) connecting Sydney, Australia and Piti, Guam. AARNet is the landing party in Sydney for the JGA South cable system and owns spectrum of one quarter fiber pair on the JGA South cable system.

According to the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Nigerian branch of Google's Equiano cable system, WIOCC Nigeria Limited partners with Google as the landing partner in Nigeria for the Equiano cable system, to secure local permits and build a new cable landing station in Lagos.

According to Ciena, Bulk Fiber Networks is deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution that leverages Ciena’s 6500 Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE) on its first submarine cable system, the Havfrue cable system, to deliver virtual fiber pairs and spectrum sharing  products and services. Bulk Fiber Networks establishes the Nordic Gateway with the operation of the Havfrue cable system.

Southern Cross Cable Limited (“Southern Cross”) and Ciena announced recently to deploy GeoMesh Extreme submarine solution utilising Ciena’s 6500 Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (“SLTE”) powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics for the new 13,494 km Southern Cross NEXT (“NEXT”) submarine cable in the Pacific.

According to PEACE Cable International Network Co. Ltd, the termination and interconnection equipment of the PEACE cable system will be located at Interxion’s MRS2 data centre in Marseille, France, pursuant to a cooperative partnership with PCCW GLOBAL and Interxion. PEACE cable will  enable low-latency access to over 160 connectivity providers along with multiple content, cloud, gaming and video streaming platforms at Interxion's Marseille campus, including MRS1, MRS2 and MRS3.

Orange landed the 6800km tranatlantic Amitié cable on a beach in the district of Le Porge, near Bordeaux (Gironde) on Monday, Feburary 8. With nearly 800km of fibre optic cable laid, this stage represents the first step of the Amitié cable’s roll-out. The Amitié cable system is scheduled for service in early 2022, to connect the state of Massachusetts, USA; Le Porge, France; and Bude, UK.

The transatlantic route is one of the busiest in the world and Dunant has come to channel the enormous increase in data and content traffic between Europe and the United States. Dunant is a new generation transatlantic cable, 6,600 km long, that connects the United States with the French Atlantic coast, and which now, in combination with MAREA, configures one of the routes with the lowest latency and the highest capacity in the world. 

Telia Carrier announced the launch of a new PoP (Point of Presence) at the Derio de Telxius Communications Hub , located near Bilbao; a communications node with great interconnection capacity. The agreement enhances Telia Carrier's fiber backbone and connectivity for customers seeking access to a completely new and diverse route, from America to Europe, with low latency and high capacity between the two continents.

Further to the supply contract coming into force, the Africa-1 consortium - currently formed of Etisalat, G42, Mobily, Pakistan Telecommunication Company and Telecom Egypt (with other parties expected to join soon) - and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) have started the implementation of a new telecommunications optical submarine network.

Orange announced that the Dunant cable system has been ready for service as of January 19, 2021.  Meanwhile, Orange also announced the signature of a partnership on the AMITIÉ cable, planned to be ready for service at the beginning of 2022.