The Government of Canada is investing over $151 million in a submarine cable project for the far northern province of Nunavut under the Rural and Northern Communities Infrastructure Stream (RNIS) of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Plan.
The addition of new connectivity partners in NetActuate’s Sydney data center have further reduced latency and increased network reliability across Oceania.
Huawei Marine Networks (HMN) has successfully achieved the longest ever 200G unrepeatered transmission trial over distance of 620.9 km. This achievement replicates HMN’s previous success in 100G unrepeatered transmission which saw in excess of 640 km reached.
The St Helena Government (SHG) has issued a letter of intent to connect St Helena to the Equiano subsea cable project. This will provide the first fibre optic connectivity from St Helena to the outside world through both Europe and South Africa.
A new national control covering the export of submersible vessels and related equipment, software and technology to Russia came into force in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2019.
North German electricity network operator Schleswig-Holstein Netz (SH Netz) has begun construction on a submarine power cable to the German island of Sylt.
Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) announced that the July 31, 2019, forbearance agreement that was entered into by 87 percent of its bondholders has been extended until 5:00pm (EDT) on September 1, 2019, which provides additional time to discuss options related to the $350m 7.00% Senior Secured Notes issued by GCX Limited.
The government of Tonga has indicated that the results of the police investigation into the January 2019 outage of the island nation’s only submarine cable would be released soon.
Portuguese telecom regulator Anacom is studying how to improve communications to the Portuguese islands of the Azores and Madeira. As is the case with many other islands around the world, Portugal’s government is taking a leading role in assure that the populations have access to quality Internet services.
Submarine cable owner Angola Cables is set to be privatized by 2022, according to the government’s privatization program that will see shares of nearly 200 government owned companies sold off.
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