By Gadget Telecommunications regulators and African governments need to clear away the red tape and regulatory risks around laying fibre to encourage network operators to invest in sinking fibre into the ground, says MARK TINKA, Head of Engineering at SEACOM. It is encouraging to see the massive investments that operators and governments have made into [...]
RINA Launches New Rules, Notations and Guide
By Marine Link International classification society RINA launched new rules for Offshore Support Vessels, new environmental notations covering cargo handling and transshipment operations and a new guide on complete ship model calculation of passenger ships. All these initiatives were approved at a meeting of RINA’s technical committee held in Genoa this week. Read more…
Tata Comm Tumbles After OFS Gets Weak Response
By Business Standard Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 184.78 points, or 0.94%, to 19,575.52. On BSE, 62,000 shares were traded in the counter as against an average daily volume of 16,740 shares in the past one quarter. The stock hit a high of Rs 207 and a low of Rs 191.50 so far during the [...]
OFAC AUTHORIZES CERTAIN EXPORTS TO IRAN FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
On May 30, 2013, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued new General License D to the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR”), authorizing the exportation to Iran of fee-based services incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet and certain fee-based software necessary to enable such services. It also authorizes, [...]
Federal Permitting Reform Initiative Continues to Ignore Submarine Cable Infrastructure
By Wiltshire & Grannis On May 17, 2013, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum, “Modernizing Federal Infrastructure Review and Permitting Regulations, Policies, and Procedures” (“Memorandum”), that directs the Steering Committee on Federal Infrastructure Permitting and Review Process Improvement (“Steering Committee”) to: (a) identify and prioritize within the next 60 days opportunities to modernize key regulations, policies, and procedures to reduce [...]
Syria Disappears From The Internet Again
By Network World Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. “Syrian Internet down again since 07:01 UTC (10:00 Damascus time), Wednesday, 15 May 2013,” said Renesys in a blog post. The Google traffic report graph that [...]

