Mobily announced its investments in new submarine cables, terrestrial networks, data centers and internet exchange at the Capacity Europe 2022 Conference, which took place in London. The conference brought the carrier community together under one roof to discuss current and future partnerships, collaborative projects, and the transformation of the wholesale telecom ecosystem fueled by rapid digital transformation. Mobily was a Gold Sponsor at the event and announced and shared its infrastructure expansion initiatives with the carrier community.

An international consortium of companies formed a joint corporation to work towards development of a submarine fiber optic system connecting Asia and Europe through the Arctic. Far North Fiber, Inc., brings together Finland’s Cinia Oy, Alaska’s Far North Digital and Japan’s ARTERIA Networks Corporation. The team will promote a system that aims to realize a faster and more secure route directly connecting Japan, North America, and Ireland and Scandinavia.

PLDT Inc. announced Monday that they had started the initial phase of the construction of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) in Batangas. The ADC project is estimated to be completed by the end of 2023.

Meta announced Monday the arrival of the 2Africa submarine cable in Spain and the mooring of the cable in Sant Adrià de Besòs, east of Barcelona, in a partnership with AFR-IX telecom, the landing partner and the owner of the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS). 

The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese officially launched the 9,800-kilometre Oman-Australia Cable on Sunday, October 23, 2022. 

Ooredoo announced to connect Tunisia to Marseille via the PEACE subsea cable. The new cable system will support the diversification of Tunisia’s international connectivity, wholly owned and operated by Ooredoo Tunisiak, set to be operational in early 2024.

EllaLink announced Tuesday the development of a direct connection between Sines and the Lisbon Metro Area – the Olisipo submarine cable system, an unrepeatered 110km submarine cable, with 144 fiber pairs and an impressive total design capacity of 4.3 Petabits.

NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today that it has signed a charter contract with U.K.-based Global Marine Systems Limited for an optical submarine cable-laying ship for approximately four years. Through this contract, NEC will strengthen its provision of submarine cable systems and respond to expanding demand for submarine cables due to the increase in global data traffic.

Bangladesh government has issued three submarine cable licenses to Summit Communications, CdNet Communications and Metacore Subcom Ltd. Last bastion of state-owned monopoly in telecoms will fall once the private cables emerge from the Bay of Bengal. But tiptoeing the notoriously unassuming regulatory minefield at the shore will dictate their fate of Darwinian survival.

Lumen announced its investment in a fiber pair on the Grace Hopper cable system, between New York and Bude, Cornwall in the UK. Lumen is the landing partner for Google's private Grace Hopper cable system, offers landing facilities at the Bellport Cable Landing Station in New York and the Bude Cable Landing Station in Cornwall, the UK.

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.