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Fibre Needs The Regulators

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 [...]

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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…

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The INTERNATIONAL CABLE PROTECTION COMMITTEE announces search for a General Manager

By ICPC Press Release With the intent of maintaining its presence as the premier organization for the protection of submarine [...]

Fibre Needs The Regulators

By Gadget Telecommunications regulators and African governments need to clear away the red tape and regulatory risks around laying fibre [...]

Tender Issued For Construction Of New Telecommunications Cable

By Voxy The three telecommunications companies that intend to co-invest in a new submarine cable between New Zealand and Australia [...]

Xtera Communications Partners With Warley Design To Develop New Optical Repeater For Subsea Cabling

Online PR News – 12-June-2013 –Warley Design Solutions, one of the UK’s leading independent providers of mechanical design and engineering [...]

Inadequate Backhaul Holding Back West Africa’s Full Integration Into Digital Age

By MTN Great strides have been made to grow broadband connectivity in Africa in the past five years. However, despite [...]

ITC Completes 8 Years Of Strategic Alliance With Reliance Globalcom In Saudi Arabia

By Zawya Integrated Telecom (ITC), one of the leading data service providers in Saudi Arabia recently marked 8 years of [...]