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SubOptic, Sparkle and University of Genoa team up for world’s first subsea cable degree

Total Telecom

The agreement includes among its main academic objectives the implementation the world’s first post-graduate course on submarine fibre optic cables. The agreement was signed by Federico Delfino, Rector of the University of Genoa, Jayne Stowell, Board Member of the SubOptic Foundation, and Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle.

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NATO funds satellite backup for subsea internet cables

Telecoms Tech News

The ambitious £2 million project – dubbed HEIST (Hybrid Space/Submarine Architecture Ensuring Infosec of Telecommunications) – received the greenlight on 31 July 2024, with partial funding coming from NATO’s Science for Peace and.

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Sparkle and Mobily Partner to Connect Europe, the Middle East and South-East Asia

Total Telecom

Under the MoU, signed during the Capacity Europe 2024 event in London, the parties agreed to leverage on Sparkle’s and Mobily’s terrestrial networks and the AAE1 cable in Jeddah to create a diversified and low latency route that will connect Italy to Saudi Arabia reaching Singapore.

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Sparkle Signs an Agreement with Nexim for the Provision of Global Internet Connectivity

Total Telecom

Rome, 13 September 2024 Sparkle , the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces a new agreement with Nexim Global, Italo-American telecommunication operator, for the provision of International IP Transit and other IP services.

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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

Broadband Breakfast

WASHINGTON, September 3, 2024 – A small Texas city is finding out what it's like when the cable TV company cuts the cord. 6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. Alpine, Texas (pop. the parent company of Big Bend Telephone Co.,

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Airtel Business Secures Additional Capacity with Sparkle on Blue-Raman Cable

Telecom Talk

Airtel Business, the B2B arm of Indian telecommunications service provider Bharti Airtel, has partnered with Italian telecommunications service provider Sparkle

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CSIS Report Warns of Chinese Threat to Global Subsea Cables

Broadband Breakfast

about Chinese technology infiltrating telecommunications networks, subsea cables carrying nearly 98% of global internet traffic have surfaced as the latest potential targets for sabotage, with China and Russia identified as primary threats. WASHINGTON, August 28, 2024 – Amid escalating concerns in the U.S.

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