By TeleGeography New data from TeleGeography’s Global Bandwidth Research Service reflect the recent surge in submarine cable construction globally. In 2010 and 2011, 19 systems worth an aggregate $3.7 billion were launched, and the pace of growth will only pick up in the next few years. Throughout 2012 and 2013, 33 submarine cable systems costing [...]
Billionaire Ambani Said to Plan $1.5 Billion IPO of Submarine Cable Unit
By Bloomberg Billionaire Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd. (RCOM), plans to raviagrae as much as $1.5 billion through a Singapore listing of its submarine cable assets, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Reliance may sell 75 percent of Reliance Globalcom’s FLAG Telecom unit in the first half of this year in an initial [...]
NTT Com Signs Contract for Asia Pacific Gateway Network
By PR Newswire NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced that it joined numerous other telecommunications carriers in Asia on December 20 in signing a contract for the construction and maintenance of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), an undersea cable network that is scheduled to launch by June 2014 with a total design capacity of 54.8 [...]
TE SubCom and Gulf Bridge International announce completion of works of GBI cable system
By GBI Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s first privately owned submarine cable operator, and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. Company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, today announced the completion of works of the GBI cable system segments within the Gulf, the Gulf to India, the Gulf to Egypt, across [...]
Wasace submarine cable headed SA’s way
By Tech Central Details are emerging of plans for the construction of yet another high-capacity submarine telecommunications cable to serve the African continent. The Wasace cable, which will connect Africa, including SA, with South America, North America and Europe, and which will cost “billions of dollarsâ€, is being project managed by the David Ross Group [...]
AP Telecom Appointed as Emerald Networks’ Pre-Sales Manager for International Network Development
By AP Telecom AP Telecom, a facilities-based telecom consulting and service company specializing in emerging markets, today announced that Emerald Networks has contracted AP Telecom to serve as overall Program Manager in the creation of a new submarine cable system connecting North America, Europe and Iceland (USA, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom). Emerald [...]

