RTI Connectivity Pte. Ltd. (RTI) has selected Equinix Equinix IBX data centers to terminate its Japan-Guam-Australia cables, Australia,Japan-Guam-Australia South Cable System (JGA South) connecting Sydney and Guam with termination into Equinix SY4 IBX in Sydney and with a branch to Australia’s Sunshine Coast, and Japan-Guam-Australia North Cable System (JGA North) connecting Tokyo and Guam with termination into Equinix TY2 IBX in Tokyo.

TransTeleCom (TTK) won a tender to provide two more 100 Gbps Eurasia links for China Unicom Global in Decmember 2019. Together, TTK has provided 5x100Gbps to China Unicom Global over the Eurasia terrestrial cables. Chinese carriers are pushing more traffic over the Eurasia terrestiral cable routes.

The two new 100G channels will run over the low latency ERMC route from China and Mongolia border to Moscow and Frankfurt am main respectively.

According to Ecofin Agency, the Congolese Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ARPTC) has granted fiber Internet connectivity provider Liquid Telecom a license to build a subsea cable landing station in the country. The news was revealed last week by the public body on its Twitter page. Liquid Telecom's landing station is expected to connect DR Congo to Google's Equiano subsea cable.

Global Cloud Xchange and Sparkle today announced the extension of their partnership by adding new spectrum capacity over the Flag Atlantic (FA-1) transatlantic system connecting Paris and London to New York.

March 09, 2020 Eastern Daylight Time-Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (“Zayo”) (NYSE: ZAYO), which provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, today announced the completion of its acquisition by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners (“Digital Colony”) and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund (“EQT” or “EQT Infrastructure”). The close marks the consummation of the $14.3 billion transaction, which represents the largest syndicated private equity investment, the fifth largest Media & Communications LBO and the second largest LBO overall since 2008.

According to telecompaper news, Telefonica is planning to split its submarine cables business from the rest of its infrastructure subsidiary Telxius, according to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg and subsequently reported by El Economista. Telxius operates an 87,000 km international network of high capacity fiber optic subsea cables, including the latest MAREA and BRUSA cables.

According to Djibouti Telecom, the DARE1 cable landed in Mombasa, the great coast city of Kenya on Friday March 6^th, 2020. The DARE1 Kenya landing marks it’s final stop, following its landing in Djibouti and Somalia earlier. Telkom Kenya hosted a ceremony for the DARE1 Kenya landing.

Miami, Florida, March 1, 2020 – Florida International University (FIU), Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa and South African National Research Network (TENET/SANReN), and Angola Cables are pleased to announce the activation of lightpaths initially provisioned at 100Gbps linking North America, South America, and Africa for research and education.

SUB.CO announced on Thursday the Oman Australia Cable (OAC) project has entered contract in force (CIF) with its final system connection expected to be completed in December, 2021. The OAC project will directly connect Muscat, Oman to Perth, Australia. The OAC cable system will be supplied by SubCom.

Southern Cross NEXT is a private fiber-optic submarine cable network connecting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Tokelau, Kiribati, and the United States. Southern Cross NEXT will complement the existing Southern Cross Cable Network to form a robust Southern Cross ecosystem, strengthening the resilience of connectivity on U.S.-South Pacific routes.

Here is the highlight information about the Southern Cross NEXT cable system.

Altibox Carrier has awarded the subsea installation contract for the Skagenfiber West cable between Larvik and Hirtshals to the Norwegian company Cecon Contracting. Cecon will contract and use Normand Cutter as the main installation vessel.

On January 29, 2020 Google and Facebook filed a request with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for special temporary authority to activate limited portions of the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN). The PLCN links Hong Kong with Los Angeles, and includes branching units to the Philippines and Taiwan. Construction of PLCN was completed in 2019, and reports have estimated the cost to design and build PLCN at USD$400M. The system is now sitting idle.

Altibox Carrier and Xtera announced the construction of a new repeater-based open cable system between Norway and UK, the NO-UK cable system. The NO-UK cable spans 670km connecting Norway (Rennesøy) and United Kingdom (Newcastle), with 8 fiber pairs and 210 Tbps system capacity. 

According to SubCom, The Manutua cable (Manatua – One Polynesia Cable) lay operations were successfully completed in January 2020. The Manutua cable system is on target to be live by June 2020.

According to Indian ZeeNews, the Chennai-A&N Islands Submarine Cable is aimed at being completed by June this year, to offer sufficient capacity through submarine cable connecting the archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar(A&N) islands off India’s east coast.

According to Djibouti Telecom, DARE1 cables have landed in Mogadishu and Bossaso (the two biggest coastal cities in Somalia). The landing of the DARE1 cables in these two important cities demonstrates great progress on DARE1 network which is on schedule to be fully operational by June 2020. The DARE1 consortium is currently composed of Djibouti Telecom, Somtel and Telkom Kenya.