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FCC launches first review of submarine cable rules since 2001

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News The Federal Communications Commission has voted to launch a major review of licensing rules surrounding submarine cable rules. A new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will begin a review of the regulations surrounding submarine cables. The rulemaking notice, approved Nov.

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NATO funds satellite backup for subsea internet cables

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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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ITU, ICPC launch advisory body on submarine cable resilience 

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A physical meeting at the Submarine Cable Resilience Summit in Nigeria will follow in February. The formation of this advisory group comes just days after a pair of submarine cables were severed in the Baltic Sea , putting the submarine cable industry under the international spotlight.

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Airtel lands the SEA-ME-WE-6 cable in Chennai (India)

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Bharti Airtel Limited (Airtel), one of Indias leading telecommunications service providers, landed the new SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6, or SMW6) in Chennai. The company had already landed the cable in Mumbai on December 30, 2024. This cable system will bring a whopping 220 TBPs of global capacity to India.

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

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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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Studies begin on Chile–Antarctica submarine cable

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Telecommunications and digitalization are the driving force of development in our country and in the entire region. Discussions around building a potential cable linking Puerto Williams, situated near Cape Horn, on Chiles southernmost point, to King George Island, Antarctica, have been ongoing since 2021.

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

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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.