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Submarine Cable Infrastructure
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Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SUBCO’s three cables total 24,100 km on paper. What makes 40,000?
SUBCO’s 22 September announcement lists three Indo-Pacific systems at 9,500 km, 10,000 km and 4,600 km. Their stated lengths add to 24,100 km. The same release says more than 40,000 km of cable will be installed, but does not show how the totals relate. That is an evidence gap to…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Samoa’s cable offer has two commitments—and one unit to verify
Samoa’s regulator has approved new wholesale terms for the Tui-Samoa cable. The offer sets a three-year lease and a 15-year capacity right, but its domestic capacity bands and long-term payment language need clarification before the headline prices can be compared with…
North America Regional ISP Trends
Fastnet’s Eastern Shore return is still unpriced
Amazon and Maryland Broadband Cooperative describe a transatlantic cable and a regional network benefit. The public record reviewed so far does not show what local users can buy, what the proposed community fund will distribute, or which outcomes the partners must deliver.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
PPC-1 Remains Out as PNG DataCo Doubles Detour Capacity
PNG DataCo says it has doubled available transmission capacity on a Port Moresby–Madang link carrying traffic around an unavailable PPC-1 path. The bandwidth change and the cable-repair timetable are separate tests of continuity.
History
Kenya’s TEAMS Cable Turned EASSy’s Delay Into a Different Ownership Deal
Kenya’s East African Marine System was conceived as a second way to reach international fiber while a regional cable debate over access and control dragged on. Its history is less about a launch date than about who would own capacity, sell it and connect it to networks on land.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Two cables can still fail as one: the UAE’s 20-year telecom resilience test
The United Arab Emirates has renewed the public telecommunications licences of e& and du through 2046. The headline is a two-decade investment horizon; the harder question is whether the routes behind that promise remain independent when a real failure reaches land.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
OFN’s Iraq dark-fibre agreement extends FIG inland; the service chain is still unproven
A new fibre purchase puts a named terrestrial supplier behind Ooredoo’s planned Iraq landing for FIG. It advances the route on paper; the public record still stops short of showing who will operate, repair and sell the complete service.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
ASEAN’s Cable-Repair Clock Still Runs Through National Gates
The enhanced ASEAN submarine-cable guidelines give governments and operators a clearer regional playbook. Their familiar seven-to-ten-working-day permit target, however, was already in the 2019 version—and the 2026 text still qualifies it as a goal “where possible,” subject to…
CASE FILE
Philippines’ cable outage: three clocks behind one “restored” notice
On 2 October, public probes saw a sharp rise in latency between the Philippines and Singapore, but could not identify a cable. InfiniVAN later reported its C2C segment restored; carriers then described their own rerouting and service recovery. These are connected events, not…
History
Who Chose the Branch? TAT-8's Capacity Bargain in Internet History
TAT-8 was planned for digital voice, computer and video traffic, not for an Internet protocol. Its branch to Britain and France, supplier contracts and capacity rules show how later data networks inherited physical decisions made for a broader telecommunications system.
Africa National Telecom Trends
ReuNION’s 320 Tb/s is design capacity; the financing chain is the test
The planned Réunion–South Africa cable is described as a 16-pair system capable of 20 Tb/s per pair. But a new route is not usable when its capacity is announced: the consortium still has to reconcile separate European grant bases, close a bank loan, secure permits and connect…
Africa National Telecom
Libya's self-declared gateway operator does not appear in the measured record of the country's 2025 shutdown
The Libyan International Telecommunication Company presents itself as Libya's single international gateway. The independent measurement of 16 May 2025 names four Libyan access networks — none of them the gateway, and one of them under a name that matches no corporate identity the…
CASE FILE
Petal’s petabit is a design envelope, not yet a delivered route
Petal matters because its two-core fibre design could materially change the density of transatlantic systems. But the most useful reading of its 1 Pbps label begins by refusing to treat a future engineering ceiling as present network capacity.
Global Institutional Trends
Lightera’s Subsea Fiber Expansion Still Needs a Demand Bridge
Lightera plans to nearly triple submarine optical-fiber manufacturing capacity by 2029. The commercial test is whether early demand visibility becomes qualified programmes, contracted volume, plant utilisation and durable cash returns.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Fastnet’s Tiny Maryland Power Building Still Faces a Long Approval Chain
Amazon has reduced the proposed shore facility for its U.S.–Ireland Fastnet cable to a power-feed building of less than 700 square feet, with no water connection and limited power demand. The smaller design answers part of Worcester County’s concern about infrastructure…
Global National Telecom Trends
EXA unveils Meridian transatlantic cable
EXA's 6,552km Meridian system is due in Q4 2029 with 24 fibre pairs and more than 500Tbps of design capacity.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
USTDA backs Thailand-US subsea cable study
USTDA is funding feasibility work for National Telecom's proposed THUS cable, which would avoid the South China Sea and could connect five other Southeast Asian markets.
North America Institutional Trends
Toptana has room for four cable systems—and one named anchor
Toptana Technologies has broken ground on a Washington cable landing station designed to receive as many as four subsea systems. The design creates room for a business; it does not prove that four customers, four commissioned cables or four revenue streams exist. For now, only…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
US and India add undersea-cable security to TRUST
A September workshop put cable resilience and supplier security inside the TRUST framework, but no new route, budget or construction timetable has been announced.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
XLSMART marks Batam landing for CANDLE cable
CANDLE has reached Batam, but its value to local data centres will depend on how the landing connects into terrestrial networks and commercial services.