Orange announced the landing of Google’s transatlantic Dunant cable in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on March 13, 2020, proceeding to the first and terrestrial stage of the laying of the Dunant cable. Dunant cable system is scheduled to come into service before the end of 2020.

According to a public Notice of Environmental Authorisation Process in South Africa, Google has selected Telkom SA as Landing Partner in South Africa, to land its private Equiano Cable System at the Melkbosstrand Cable Landing Station, about 35 km north of Cape Town.

JGA South consortium including RTI Connectivity Pte. Ltd. (RTI), AARNet Pty Ltd (AARNet) and Google announced on Friday March 27 that the construction of the Japan-Guam-Australia South Cable System (JGA South) has been successfully completed and is ready for service. The JGA South spans approximately 7,000 km between Piti, Guam and Sydney, Australia with a branch to the Sunshine Coast, with an initial design capacity of more than 36 Tbps. The Sunshine Coast branch is the first undersea fibre optic cable to land on the east coast of Australia outside of Sydney.

According to the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET), the operating partner of the South African national research and education network, there was a break on WACS cable system at 23:28pm UTC on Friday March 27. The WACS break was occured between between Seixal, Portugal, and Highbridge, England.

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.