Category: Optical & Fixed Networks

South African company fibertime, which says its aim is to connect townships to affordable world-class internet, is working with tech giant Nokia on expanding its fibre broadband access footprint to include an additional 400,000 homes located across Sou…

Keppel – one of the owners of the Bifrost Cable System – said on Thursday that the subsea cable linking the US to Southeast Asia is now ready for service and will now gear up to carry commercial traffic in the coming weeks.

Keppel – one of the owners of the Bifrost Cable System – said on Thursday that the subsea cable linking the US to Southeast Asia is now ready for service and will now gear up to carry commercial traffic in the coming weeks.

Philippine fibre network operator InfiniVAN and its parent company, Japanese telecoms services provider IPS, have signed a MoU with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) to beef up BCDA’s fibre infrastructure assets, particularly the Lu…

The Taliban has intensified its internet crackdown, triggering a nationwide connectivity blackout across Afghanistan.

Telekom Malaysia’s wholesale business arm, TM Global, announced on Thursday it has completed its fifth cable landing station in Morib, Selangor that can support up to three subsea cable systems, including the upcoming SEA-ME-WE 6.

Subsea cable provider Seacom revealed on Thursday it will build a new subsea cable system, Seacom 2.0, that will provide AI-level capacity across the Indian Ocean Basin, Middle East, Mediterranean, and Southern Europe.

Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), a Mexican telecommunications company and a wholly owned subsidiary of telecommunications giant America Movil, with a portfolio that includes fixed line services, broadband internet and submarine cables, says its …

Nokia announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with Indian fibre networking services provider Microscan Infocommtech to deploy its optical network solution in Microscan’s DWDM backbone network in Mumbai and Pune to address surging bandwidth demand….

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has agreed to fund a feasibility study for a plan to extend AFR-IX Telecom’s Medusa subsea cable along Africa’s western coastline.