Total Telecom

JANUARY 14, 2025

News The patents relate to an “ocean towing type cutting device” that can be used to severe cable on the seabed On Friday, a report from Newsweek shared the news that Chinese engineers had logged multiple patents for anchor-like devices specifically designed to sever submarine cables.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By February this year, the ‘Red Sea crisis’ had escalated to become a major issue for the international telecoms community, with submarine cables in the region being badly damaged, severely disrupting data traffic in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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Developing Telecoms

AUGUST 21, 2024

There have been further developments in the controversy in Pakistan reported yesterday relating to slow internet speeds. A new contribution from regulator the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has moved the blame away from VPNs.

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Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Papua New Guinea’s state-owned wholesale operator PNG DataCo says that it has completed an upgrade of its internet gateway with a 100-Gbps link that enables it to migrate traffic onto the PIPE Pacific Cable 1 (PPC-1) subsea cable.

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Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Vietnam has this week announced that it aims to deploy two undersea internet cables by the end of next year. It has also said that 5G services will be deployed across the country by that time.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

News The announcement comes after the company joining the Telco AI Alliance earlier this year SK Telecom has announced a new initiative to expand its AI capabilities by creating an “AI Infrastructure Superhighway.” This facility will demonstrate next-generation AI infrastructure for industry experts and partners.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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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Developing Telecoms

MARCH 23, 2025

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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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Earlier this month, the company reached the milestone of delivering high-speed satellite internet to one million people in Sub-Saharan Africa through its Konnect Wi-Fi hotspot solution. The trial is part of Eutelsats broader efforts to bridge the digital divide.

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VoIP Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Saudi Arabian telecom company Mobily has teamed up with Telecom Egypt to establish a submarine cable across the Red Sea. This new cable is set to enhance connectivity between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, addressing the rising demand for internet services in both regions.

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VoIP Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sweden’s authorities are closely examining the suspected sabotage of an essential undersea telecom cable in the Baltic Sea, operated by the Finnish company, Cinia. According to the Swedish news agency Gteborgs-Posten, the cable continues to operate despite the destruction, with the exact details still under scrutiny.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

News The deal extends Bell’s fibre reach across North America, targeting millions of new connections Bell Canada Enterprises, Canada’s largest telecom company, is making its first move into the US fibre market. The deal involves CAD 5 billion ($3.6 billion) in cash and the assumption of CAD 2 billion ($1.5

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Telegeography

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Take The Economist , which recently published America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?

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Developing Telecoms

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), a state corporation that transports, stores and delivers petroleum products to consumers, but that also has a network infrastructure license, says it has onboarded a leading Tier III internet service provider (ISP), Syokinet Solutions, to activate 1.6

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Limited by poor mobile signals and no direct broadband cable, the government’s £2 million pilot project aims to combine GEO and LEO satellite terminals with wireless technologies to deliver improved connectivity for residents, businesses, and tourists. The second project relates to Papa Stour, one of the most remote Shetland isles.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 15, 2025

Keep up to date with the latest international telecoms news by subscribing to the Total Telecom daily newsletter Also in the news: Adani Groups foray into industrial 5G is total failure Nokia bags deal to connect new offshore wind farms Chinese engineers patenting submarine cable cutting tech

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 9, 2024

– Mobile Private Network The Startup of the Year Award The winner of this Award will be decided by a panel of judges live at Connected Britain Join us at Connected Britain 2024, the UK’s largest digital economy event.

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Telecom Talk

AUGUST 29, 2024

Frontier Communications launches a 7 Gbps broadband service across its entire FTTH footprint, offering download and upload speeds up to 200 times faster than traditional cable.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 15, 2025

Chinese engineers have reportedly developed technology specifically designed to sever undersea communication cables, raising alarms due to the critical nature of these infrastructures. A recent Newsweek report revealed several patents for anchor-like devices intended for cutting submarine cables.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 9, 2024

As part of the railway deployment plan for HS2, mobile and broadband providers would be offered access to spare capacity in the 2,000km of fibre cabling and 80 telecoms masts being constructed alongside the railway, which will connect London and Birmingham.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 5, 2025

Wireless leadership and spectrum management Several bills focused on telecom policy and spectrum management, with lawmakers stressing the need for U.S. 1737, would direct NTIA to study the feasibility of a trans-Atlantic undersea fiber optic cable connecting the U.S., in opening remarks. Another key infrastructure measure, H.R.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 3, 2025

In its 4-3 vote in early March, the City Council opted to continue work on the  Connect Wilmar Initiative , something it says is an answer to the ongoing failures by regional incumbent telecom monopolies to provide uniform, high quality, high speed, affordable Internet access.

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

Their campervan serves as both home and office, meaning a robust and redundant internet setup is essential. Their upgraded system offers a great case study into the infrastructure behind reliable van-based internet. The setup allows automatic failover between cellular and satellite internet sources, keeping downtime to a minimum.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Mole ploughs broke the ground in Stapleford last week, as Wessex Internet began its physical work to deliver full fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in South Wiltshire. This means a fibre optic cable goes all the way to each building, rather than stopping at a cabinet down the road. The contract is worth £18.8

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Amazon already works closely with the UK government, with Amazon Web Services a main supplier of secure internet storage.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The agency is trying to fend off a court challenge to its net neutrality rules, which reclassify broadband as a Title II telecom service under the Communications Act, rather than a Title I information service. They are offered by applications (information services) that utilize broadband Internet access service to transmit and receive data.

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VoIP Review

AUGUST 9, 2024

Read the full article NATO Initiative Boosts Global Internet Resilience, HEIST Project Launched NATO has launched the HEIST initiative to bolster global internet resilience by creating a hybrid network of subsea cables and satellites. This follows a successful 2024 5.5G integration.

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VoIP Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Globe Telecom has been chosen to manage the Philippines landing of the extensive MYUS cable system. This 19,000 km cable aims to link Malaysia with the United States, passing through the Philippines and Guam, with further branches to Indonesia. The submarine cable industry is experiencing rapid growth.

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Telegeography

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

You might specifically know of her work as a team lead for Google's subsea cable Equiano along the Western Coast of Africa. Or perhaps you know her as a renowned internet governance advocate and interconnection strategist. We're so glad to welcome her decades of expertise to TeleGeography's Preferred Partners program.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2024 – In the second quarter, the pattern looked familiar among publicly traded broadband Internet Service Providers: The wireline variety as a group lost subscribers, while fixed wireless access providers posted solid gains. Additionally, Ting Internet, known for its FTTH offerings, netted 2,100 subscribers.

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Meta has unveiled its most ambitious subsea cable project to date Project Waterworth , previously referred to as "W", because of it's shape. The multi-billion-dollar initiative is set to become the longest subsea cable in the world, spanning over 50,000 km and connecting five major continents, including the U.S.,

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 14, 2025

I have been following the story, but always interesting to see what others say; Broadband Breakfast reports… Minnesotas push to bring high-speed internet to every corner of the state could hit a roadblock. If the law stays as is, thousands of homes and businessesespecially in rural and underserved areaswill remain disconnected.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As I showed in “ The End of Telecoms History ”, data growth is slowing and will plateau long before 6G is introduced, so there is no need for more capacity. On the plus side, 5G did deliver more capacity, and this has been important as data usage grew from the time of its introduction to the present day. That would be worth fighting for.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If animal species were going extinct as quickly as competition from Canadian independent internet providers, the government would have declared a national emergency long ago. In recent years, small business internet service providers have either been swallowed by larger competitors or shut down altogether.

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Airtel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In today’s digital age, high-speed internet has become an essential part of our lives. As we rely more on online services for work, entertainment, and communication, the demand for faster and more reliable internet connections continues to grow. Understanding single-mode Fiber What is single-mode Fiber Cable ?

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

5, 2024 – An Internet Service Provider serving the Lowcountry region of South Carolina has requested a six month extension on its obligations to replace insecure telecommunications equipment. WASHINGTON, Nov. The program was passed by Congress on March 12, 2020 and made more than $1.8

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