Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has appointed Jim Clarke as its Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Gavin Rea as its Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Joseph Jabakhanji as its Head of Sales, and Ergin Kilinc as Director of Enterprise Sales and Business Development.
Cambodia will see a major improvement in internet speed and quality following a US$75-million investment by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) into the country’s largest independent fiber optic network provider.
LS Cable announced that it has signed a contract to supply submarine cables for an offshore wind farm project in Taiwan. As a result, LS Cable has supplied submarine cables to all three of the offshore wind farm projects in Taiwan so far.
The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC), the world’s preeminent organisation devoted to protection of submarine cables, offered its congratulations to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) on the 25th anniversary of its founding.
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. announces that its shareholders approved all proposals related to the definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund.
Vodacom Group announced a strategic repositioning of its Vodacom Business Africa operations that will result in three separate share purchase agreements involving its enterprise businesses in Nigeria, Zambia, Angola, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.
MTA Fiber Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MTA, announced that it will deploy technology from Ciena in the Alaska Canada Overland Network (AlCan ONE).
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) is deploying a new subsea system for Vocus Group Limited in the Coral Sea that will connect both Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands back to Sydney (the major Internet hub of the region), boosting international connectivity and providing high speed telecommunications capacity to those countries.
Prysmian Group has been awarded a project by Vattenfall to provide the submarine inter–array cable systems for the Hollandse Kust Zuid III and IV offshore wind farms in The Netherlands.
Sparkle announces it has moved its Djibouti Point of Presence (PoP) into the Djibouti Data Center (DDC) selecting it as Sparkle’s IP hub for its expansion to East and South Africa.
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