India and Liberia face cable landing station planning issues

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Guest authors

While many subsea cable stories recently are about accidents and repairs in the world’s oceans, two recent stories from India and West Africa are land-based and underline some of the potential pitfalls of inadequate planning.

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El Salvador selects Liberty Networks for first subsea cable

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December 18, 2025
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El Salvador’s telecommunications regulator, SIGET, has selected Liberty Networks to construct and deploy the country’s first subsea cable, in a move aimed at expanding international connectivity capacity and meeting rising demand.

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Ghana plans to incorporate fibre rollout into road building

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November 20, 2025
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A move described as “a bold and visionary step” by Sylvia Owusu-Ankomah, CEO of the Digital Chamber of Ghana, has seen the Ghanaian government give the green light to plans to build fibre chambers alongside roads, effectively eliminating the capital co…

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YTL wins contract to deploy railway fibre as Fiberail monopoly ends

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April 21, 2025
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Malaysia’s Railway Assets Corp (RAC) announced on Friday it has contracted telco YTL Communications to build out fibre optic infrastructure along 1,600 km of railway track, putting an end to the railway fibre monopoly held by Telekom Malaysia’s Fiberai…

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