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New ITU initiative focuses on submarine cable resilience

Developing Telecoms

A timely announcement from the ITU, the United Nations specialised agency for digital technology, is aimed at enhancing efforts to protect the world's digital infrastructure and secure global connectivity. To be precise, it’s about submarine cables.

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BT bags £105m from old copper cables in new recycling deal 

Total Telecom

News The deal will support the extraction and recycling of copper cable from BT’s network until 2028 BT has secured £105 million from the sale of its surplus copper cables, according to a Guardian article published today. Post-pandemic, the price of copper has risen by nearly 50%, and this is set to grow even more by 2040.

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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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SK Telecom and Nokia introduce fibre environment sensing

Telecoms Tech News

SK Telecom and Nokia are joining forces to implement fibre sensing technology, an innovative approach to detecting environmental changes that could affect optical cables in fixed networks. Read more » The post SK Telecom and Nokia introduce fibre environment sensing appeared first on Telecoms Tech News.

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Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom Partner for Open-Access Cable Landing Station in Cyprus

Telecom Talk

Grid Telecom, a subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, and Tamares Telecom, a fiber-based international communications

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Modern Broadband is a Telecom Service, Says Former FCC Technology Head

Broadband Breakfast

“Broadband Internet access service is fundamentally different than both dial-up Internet access service and the cable modem service that predominated in the first decade of the 2000s,” wrote Scott Jordan , the FCC’s chief technology officer from 2014-2016, in an amicus brief to the U.S.

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SK Telecom and Nokia Innovate Fibre Sensing Technology

VoIP Review

SK Telecom and Nokia have come together to introduce a groundbreaking fibre sensing technology. This innovative technology aims to detect environmental changes that could impact optical cables in fixed networks. SK Telecom plans to introduce this technology in South Korea before the end of the year.