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Sparkle and Turkcell sign subsea cable MoU 

Total Telecom

News The MoU was signed during this years MWC Barcelona Sparkle and Turkcell have announced a new partnership to develop a subsea cable in the Mediterranean. This week, at MWC Barcelona, the two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a 4,000 km subsea cable linking Turkey and Europe.

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Sebastian Sassi: 3 Rules Broadband Disruptors Follow to Win the Bandwidth Battleground

Broadband Breakfast

History has shown that when public dollars fund fiber projects en masse, major telecom operators secure priority access to infrastructure providers, leaving regional operators with reduced supply, higher costs, and longer wait times. There’s limited manufacturing capacity for fiber cable and high-quality components.

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BSCPLC cuts bandwidth prices 10% to lower internet access costs

Developing Telecoms

State-owned Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC (BSCPLC) has reportedly decided to slash its wholesale bandwidth prices by 10% in a bit to make internet access in Bangladesh more affordable.

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Bangladesh to cap bandwidth imports from India at 30% of total capacity

Developing Telecoms

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has reportedly limited bandwidth imports from India to 50% of Bangladeshs total international capacity, and plans to lower that percentage even further in favour of subsea cables and satellite.

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Can Telecoms Stop Fixed Wireless Fraud and Bandwidth Abuse?

Broadband Breakfast

Considering that FWA subscribers already use anywhere from 20 to 50 times more bandwidth than mobile users, it’s not hard to imagine how fraud can cause a host of problems for FWA operators, including but not limited to network strain, increased operational costs, and revenue loss.

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Vietnam gets major capacity boost as Viettel lights up ADC segment

Developing Telecoms

Viettel Networks, a subsidiary of military-owned telco Viettel, announced on Wednesday that the Vietnam-bound link of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) is now live, more than doubling the countrys international bandwidth.

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Telecom East: The bandwidth business in the age of hyperscalers and AI

Light Reading

Hosts Robert Clark and Ross O'Brien cover SK Telecom's AI revenues, Goldman Sachs tapping into Asia's data center boom and some 5G standalone stats. They're joined by Telstra CEO Roary Stasko to discuss the role of the global cable operator in the age of hyperscalers and how to deal with subsea cable threats.