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Conceptual editorial image of a business executive standing before a world map showing international subsea cable routes and a coastal landing station

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Paul Abfalter to become FLAG CEO in October

FLAG’s strategy and revenue chief will succeed Carl Grivner, who will remain with the subsea network operator as chairman.

Aug 5, 2026
Editorial illustration of submarine cable training with a cable-laying vessel, subsea cable, study materials and digital network imagery.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

Sparkle, University of Genoa launch submarine cable course

Sparkle, the University of Genoa and the SubOptic Foundation have launched a postgraduate programme dedicated to submarine cable infrastructure.

Aug 4, 2026
A translucent surveyed submarine ring route hovers above the Caribbean seabed between two landing zones, with a ghosted cable drum showing that construction is still planned.

Global National Telecom Trends

Fénix promises a 14 Tbps Venezuela–Curaçao ring, but the cable is still an announced project

Liberty Networks and CANTV announced Fénix on 31 July as a 378-kilometre submarine cable system between Camuri in Venezuela and Willemstad in Curaçao, with a stated minimum ring capacity of 14 Tbps. The design would connect Venezuela to a broader Caribbean hub. The release is…

Aug 1, 2026
Editorial illustration of a cable-laying ship deploying a submarine cable beside a hybrid cable-maintenance vessel under construction.

Global National Telecom Trends

China commissions cable ship as Global Marine orders hybrid vessel

China has commissioned Tianyi Linghangzhe, while Global Marine has ordered a hybrid cable-maintenance vessel for delivery in 2029.

Jul 31, 2026
A specialised cable vessel pays a dark armoured fibre cable into the Caspian Sea while three plain cable baskets remain visible on deck.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

The Trans-Caspian cable has entered the seabed; it has not yet entered service

A specialised vessel has departed Baku and begun laying fibre toward Aktau, converting the Trans-Caspian project from stored equipment into a physical route across the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan’s government says regulatory, organisational and customs obstacles were resolved, a…

Jul 31, 2026
Map showing the operating SEA-H2X submarine cable and the planned SHV-HK route between Cambodia and Hong Kong.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

SEA-H2X enters commercial service as SHV-HK lands

SEA-H2X is now commercial, while SHV-HK has reached Hong Kong, adding one live route and another planned link across intra-Asia networks.

Jul 30, 2026

Leaders

Andres Tolosa and Antel's Subsea Route Independence

Andres Tolosa's dated public record at Antel shows how an operator moved a submarine-cable project from a prospective capacity plan to an inaugurated route, while keeping the practical problem focused on route dependence, contracted international capacity, financing, and…

Jul 29, 2026
Representative submarine-cable repair vessel handling cable in open ocean near a rugged coastline

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

The 2006 Hengchun Earthquake Made Submarine-Cable Route Concentration an Accountability Test

How a sequential cable-failure corridor exposed the difference between nominal redundancy, usable alternate capacity and repairable network continuity.

Jul 29, 2026
Funke Opeke seated at a telecommunications conference against a plain blue background.

Leaders

Funke Opeke: From MainOne's open-access cable financing to restoration capacity

Funke Opeke's public record shows how a telecommunications operator moved through three different infrastructure constraints: financing and permitting an open-access submarine cable, adapting when weak terrestrial reach constrained uptake after landing, and confronting…

Jul 29, 2026
An engineer places isolation gates across a wide router mesh while a damaged long-haul fibre forces traffic onto amber paths

NANOG

A NANOG thread says 300 IS-IS routers are the easy question

Three hundred is a count, not a design. A late-indexed NANOG reply completed an operator exchange in which the short answer was that a flat IS-IS Level 2 domain can carry that scale; the more consequential answer was that acceptable failure scope, repair time and…

Jul 28, 2026
A newly landed submarine cable enters a beach vault and joins several inland backhaul ducts on Puerto Rico's southern coast

North America National Telecom Trends

Claro’s $35 million Ponce landing adds a route without proving independence

Claro Puerto Rico has funded a $35 million extension of the AMX-1 submarine system to Ponce, creating the island’s first reported cable landing on the southern coast. The new geographic entry point can diversify access and support wholesale capacity, but it does not by itself…

Jul 28, 2026
Representative carrier-neutral cable landing and interconnection room with visibly separated fibre paths and network racks.

Global National Telecom

West Africa's 2024 Multi-Cable Outage Made Regional Route Diversity an Accountability Test

Four separately named submarine cable systems encountered faults near a shared West African corridor in March 2024. The resulting disruption showed that regional resilience depends on physically independent routes, reachable and sufficiently provisioned alternatives, working…

Jul 27, 2026
Generated coastal telecom landing site with separate conduit routes and microwave and satellite dishes.

Global National Telecom

Shetland's 2022 Cable Outage Showed Why Physical Redundancy Must Be Usable

Shetland appeared to have the basic shape of resilience: a subsea fibre path south through Orkney to mainland Scotland and another path north toward the Faroe Islands. In October 2022, the northern path developed trouble first. When the southern path was damaged days later, much…

Jul 27, 2026
Prysmian subsea cable burial operation

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Prysmian deploys new subsea cable burial tool

Prysmian’s new plough can bury submarine power cables up to five metres below the seabed where route conditions require deeper protection.

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial graphic showing the Nuvem subsea cable route from South Carolina to Portugal through Bermuda and the Azores

Global Cloud Services

Google connects Nuvem cable to Portugal

Google’s connection of Nuvem at Sines completes a key landing milestone, but the cable’s full operating status and usable capacity remain undisclosed.

Jul 26, 2026
Illustration of two planned submarine power cables linking Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick

North America National Telecom Trends

Canada funds development of two PEI power cables

Canada has committed C$5.9 million to advance two planned submarine power cables between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial risk and accountability image for Tonga Cable Limited

Global National Telecom

Tonga's 2022 Cable Break Turned Redundancy and Repair Logistics Into a National Continuity Test

When Tonga's only international submarine fibre route failed after the Hunga eruption, an extraordinary natural hazard became a test of ordinary continuity controls: diverse paths, usable fallback capacity, compatible spares, repair-vessel access, restoration priorities and…

Jul 25, 2026
Watch for completion of the Singapore landing and system testing, followed by a revised ready-for-service date and commercial launch. Published launch capacity, route details and interconnection options at Nongsa Digital Park and Digital Realty’s SIN12 facility will show what customers can order and whether NCC provides a distinct path from existing Batam–Singapore systems.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Telin and BW Digital land Nongsa Changi cable in Batam

Telin and BW Digital landed the 50km Nongsa Changi Cable in Batam, but the Batam–Singapore link still has no revised service date.

Jul 22, 2026
Submarine fibre lands at a coastal station and branches toward several small data facilities

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Chunghwa will use submarine cables as an APN test bench, not a launch platform

Chunghwa Telecom, Fujitsu and 1Finity have agreed to a two-year programme to verify all-photonics networking on Chunghwa’s submarine-cable systems and study distributed data centres. The commitment creates a real test surface, but no equipment order, capacity figure, route…

Jul 22, 2026
Editorial cutaway illustration of an armoured submarine fibre cable entering a restrained Atlantic coastal landing facility

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

Nuvem has reached shore; its 384Tbps still has not reached the market

Google's Nuvem cable is now physically connected at Sines, completing a disclosed landing sequence between South Carolina, Bermuda, the Azores and mainland Portugal. That changes the system from a route on paper into an Atlantic asset with operating optionality. It does not show…

Jul 21, 2026