Gibtelecom has announced that it has recently entered into a strategic communications partnership with Monaco Telecom, part of the Cable and Wireless Communications group. The partnership marks a further step on Gibtelecom’s journey to becoming a global communications carrier. Monaco and Gibraltar are now directly connected as both places are landing stations on the Europe [...]
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Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding S.A.E. (OTMT) announced the completion of the negotiations with Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (OTH) to sell 100% stake in its fully owned subsidiary Med Cable. The acquisition of UK-based Med Cable by OTH has a value of Euro 12.3 million. The Med Cable Ltd (“Med Cable”) is a submarine [...]
Globe Telecom recently confirmed that it has successfully interconnected Boracay through fiber optics, effectively boosting the connections and strengthening the network coverage of the internationally-renowned island. This was accomplished through the Boracay Submarine Cable System, a two-kilometer fiber optic cable which is able to transmit 80 wavelengths of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing or DWDM systems [...]
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France Telecom-Orange has suffered a major incident on its cable ship, the Chamarel. A fire broke out on the ship late afternoon on 8 August while returning from a repair operation on the Sat3-Safe cable off the coast of Namibia in the Atlantic Ocean. Despite the crew’s efforts to control the fire, the decision was [...]
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CAT Telecom, Thai telecom company, announced that it has commenced the construction of additional submarine cables in the Gulf of Thailand, Telegeography.com reports. The total worth of the contract is about THB2.7 billion (USD85 million) and has the aim of adding data bandwidth capacity and connectivity between the southern and central parts of the country. [...]
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Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, announced that Perseus Telecom, a global provider of connectivity, has selected Ciena’s equipment, software and services to build an end-to-end, ultra low-latency network between the U.S. and Europe. Combining metro networks in the global financial hubs of New York City, New Jersey, London and Frankfurt, as well as a trans-Atlantic [...]
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Maroc Telecom begins implementation of a high speed fibre-optic submarine cable connecting Morocco and Spain. The cable known as ‘Loukkos’ should be available for service in March this year. Alcatel Submarine Networks and CanaLink are supplying the cable which will link Asilah in Morocco along with Rota in Spain. The cable value is USD 16 [...]
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Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom is planning to join a consortium of the fourteen leading telecommunications service providers with an investment in the new Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable project. Service providers which will invest in the $500 million submarine cable project incorporate: China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, KT Corp., NTT DoCoMo, LG Uplus, Vietnamese Posts [...]
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The hedges were given over the objections of the Communications Ministry legal and economics departments. Ministry of Communications director general Eden Bar-Tal instructed the ministry’s legal and economics departments to create hedges for Tamares Telecom Ltd., which is laying a third undersea cable between Israel and Cyprus, in order to facilitate the company’s entry [...]
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Tamares Telecom Ltd. is installing a third undersea cable connecting Israel and Cyprus. An additional undersea cable that will connect Israel with the world, should significantly improve competition and the telecoms market. With the third undersea cable, if the earnings mainly stay with the communications companies, the prices of internet will stay the same. [...]
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