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		<title>APTelecom Announces Launch of &#8216;State of Subsea&#8217; Event Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AP Telecom APTelecom, a facilities-based telecom consulting and service company specializing in emerging markets, today announced that it will produce a data gathering meeting (DGM) event on October 2, 2013, in New York City. The event will be the first in a series of &#8216;State of Subsea&#8217; DGMs that APTelecom will host throughout 2013 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warley Design Helps Develop Next-Generation Optical Repeater For Subsea Cable Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warley Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Warley Design Warley Design Solutions has helped a leading global supplier of optical networking solutions to develop an industry-leading next-generation optical repeater for subsea cable systems. Warley Design Solutions, one of the UK’s leading independent providers of Mechanical Design &#38; Engineering Services, has helped Xtera Communications Inc, a leading global supplier of optical networking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The INTERNATIONAL CABLE PROTECTION COMMITTEE announces search for a General Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ICPC Press Release With the intent of maintaining its presence as the premier organization for the protection of submarine cables, the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) announces its interest in receiving proposals for the position of General Manager. The Executive Committee of the ICPC wish to appoint a General Manager to manage day-to-day operation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fibre Needs The Regulators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Finance & Legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seacom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tender Issued For Construction Of New Telecommunications Cable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Future Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasman Global Access]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Voxy The three telecommunications companies that intend to co-invest in a new submarine cable between New Zealand and Australia have issued a tender for the cable’s construction.  Several international submarine cable contractors have been invited to tender for the Tasman Global Access (TGA) Cable and all have indicated strong interest in responding.  It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xtera Communications Partners With Warley Design To Develop New Optical Repeater For Subsea Cabling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Online PR News – 12-June-2013 –Warley Design Solutions, one of the UK’s leading independent providers of mechanical design and engineering services, has helped Xtera Communications Inc, a leading global supplier of optical networking solutions, to develop and launch a next-generation optical repeater for subsea cable systems. The new repeater enables service providers to build high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inadequate Backhaul Holding Back West Africa’s Full Integration Into Digital Age</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/inadequate-backhaul-holding-back-west-africas-full-integration-into-digital-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MTN Group]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MTN Great strides have been made to grow broadband connectivity in Africa in the past five years. However, despite this growth, West Africa still has to overcome massive challenges to fully integrate into the digital age. MTN Guinea Conakry’s CEO Phumzile Joshua Phike said this to delegates attending the 10th annual Connecting West Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ITC Completes 8 Years Of Strategic Alliance With Reliance Globalcom In Saudi Arabia</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/itc-completes-8-years-of-strategic-alliance-with-reliance-globalcom-in-saudi-arabia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Zawya Integrated Telecom (ITC), one of the leading data service providers in Saudi Arabia recently marked 8 years of alliance with Reliance Globalcom in Saudi Arabia, an exclusive alliance that goes back to 2005. Under this business arrangement, Reliance Globalcom is providing Integrated Telecom with international bandwidth and connectivity services. Says Nadim Abouhamad, ITC&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RINA Launches New Rules, Notations and Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Tata Communications Limited : confirms its delisting from the New York Stock Exchange and termination of ADR program</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/tata-communications-limited-confirms-its-delisting-from-the-new-york-stock-exchange-and-termination-of-adr-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (NYSE) &#38; Mumbai (NSE &#38; BSE) June 7th 2013 &#8211; Tata Communications Limited (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (NYSE: TCL) confirms that the delisting of its American Depositary Shares (&#8220;ADSs&#8221;), as evidenced by American Depositary Receipts (&#8220;ADRs&#8221;), from the New York Stock Exchange will become effective at the close of business today. This follows the filing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is The State Of ACE For Better Internet Service?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Current Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Foroyaa The World Bank provided support for government’s participation in the establishment of a submarinecable service to improve internet connectivity through a grant of US$35 million under the West Africa Regional Communication and Infrastructure Programme (WARCIP), the Gambia Project. Africa coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable service was advertised and placed on bill board informing people that ACE will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Managing Director Joins DOF Subsea UK</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/new-managing-director-joins-dof-subsea-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[DOF Subsea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By DOF Subsea A HIGHLY-EXPERIENCED figure in the subsea sector has been appointed Managing Director of DOF Subsea UK. &#160; Giovanni Corbetta, who was most recently Managing Director with Hallin Marine, will lead the company’s transformation from vessel operator to provider of integrated subsea solutions for the market from its headquarters in Aberdeen. &#160; In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cable Ship Prepares To Roll-out Fiji-Tonga Fibre-Optic Cable</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/cable-ship-prepares-to-roll-out-fiji-tonga-fibre-optic-cable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Future Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matangi Tonga Online The cable ship “Ile de Re” is  preparing to roll-out an 837km underwater fibre-optic cable line from Fiji to Tonga. The “Ile de Re”, which arrived in Suva last week, is owned by Alcatel-Lucent, a French submarine fibre-optics Company. Alcatel-Lucent signed a deal with Tonga Cable Ltd last year to lay an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tata Comm Tumbles After OFS Gets Weak Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Finance & Legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tata Communications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Business Standard Meanwhile, the S&#38;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OFAC AUTHORIZES CERTAIN EXPORTS TO IRAN FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/ofac-authorizes-certain-exports-to-iran-for-personal-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICPC Plenary – A Resounding Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ICPC The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) has just completed its 46th Plenary meeting, which was held in Miami, USA from 21-23 May 2013. A record 124 delegates representing 82 companies from 35 countries attended this meeting, which was regarded as demonstrating the success of the ICPC’s efforts to engage with stakeholders and represent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New WACS outage details</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/new-wacs-outage-details/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 15:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cable Faults]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The West African Cable System (WACS) has informed its clients that the dates of planned maintenance on the cable system have changed. Repairs will now take place from 14 June and 20 June (originally scheduled for between 4 June and 8 June). Communication received by MyBroadband stated that there will be maintenance on the submarine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Main One rebrands to address broadband challenges in West Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/main-one-rebrands-to-address-broadband-challenges-in-west-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 14:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By The Guardian NIGERIA’s first privately owned submarine cable, Main One Cable Company, has expressed optimism about exploring the opportunities and challenges the West African broadband market presents. To achieve this, the firm has rebranded to Main One, which marks the conclusion of the company’s evolution from a submarine cable company to a full-fledged communications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teamwork needed for new subsea cables</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 13:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tech Central Musa Phungula, the entrepreneur behind the proposed US$130m TTD cable to connect Mtunzini in KwaZulu-Natal to East London, Port Elizabeth and Yzerfontein near Cape Town, says collaboration between other projects to build submarine fibre along the same route is needed. Phungula’s company, Techteledata, has spoken to other cable companies about collaboration but they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montserrat Proposing Submarine Fibre Optic Cable Project</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/montserrat-proposing-submarine-fibre-optic-cable-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 13:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Caribbean Journal Montserrat is now soliciting expressions of interest for a proposed Submarine Fiber Optic Cable Project.  The project would reinstall a cable which was lost after the devastating volcanic eruptions on the island in 1995.  The government said feasibility consultations have already been included.  Read more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>DANTE and UbuntuNet Alliance award contract to WIOCC to provide connectivity services to Sub-Saharan Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/dante-and-ubuntunet-alliance-award-contract-to-wiocc-to-provide-connectivity-services-to-sub-saharan-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 13:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By WIOCC DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) has awarded a 15 year contract to award-winning carrier WIOCC for connectivity services in Southern and Eastern Africa, kicking off a two year planning and procurement phase for the AfricaConnect project.  In 2015, the contract will novate from DANTE to the UbuntuNet Alliance. The connectivity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZTE slips by Alcatel-Lucent in global ON market</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/zte-slips-by-alcatel-lucent-in-global-on-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 17:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 28, 2013 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) &#8212; Ovum&#8217;s analysis of 1Q13 results in the $14.5bn global optical networking (ON) market has highlighted several key shifts. First, ZTE overtook Alcatel-Lucent to grab the number two spot; for the first time, Chinese vendors hold the top two ranks in optical networking. Second, growth in 100G remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seacom to roll out 2,500 km cable in South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 17:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seacom says it will roll out a new 2,500 kilometre undersea cable connecting the coast of KwaZulu-Natal to the Eastern and Western Cape, Engineering News reported. Seacom, which aims to launch the USD 80-100 million South African Marine System (Sams) by the fourth quarter of 2014, believes the link is the missing piece to close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telkom invests $30M in fiber optic cable</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/telkom-invests-30m-in-fiber-optic-cable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 17:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jakarta (ANTARA News) &#8211; State telecommunications operator PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) has set aside Rp1.7 trillion in funds to build fiber optic submarine cable which will connect the two eastern Indonesian provinces of Maluku and Papua. &#8220;The submarine cable is expected to start operating in 2015 so it can increase broadband services in the eastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xtera expands turnkey Offering And Joins ICPC</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2013/xtera-expands-turnkey-offering-and-joins-icpc-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 15:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Xtera Xtera Communications Inc. (&#8220;Xtera&#8221;), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced further steps to expand its footprint in the turnkey solutions market in conjunction with the introduction of its repeater on the first day of SubOptic 2013 in Paris, France.  The company says it has significantly increased its internal and [...]]]></description>
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