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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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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

News The new partnership with Oceanic Environmental Cables (OEC) save more than 35,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (COe) from reusing the cable materials The new deal will see OEC acquire and recover over 22,000km of Sparkles unused submarine cables from the Mediterranean seabed. million kilometres.

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Telecom Talk

APRIL 30, 2025

Indias telecom and internet service providers are accelerating efforts to move 120 million cable TV households to IPTV. Despite challenges the shift to IPTV is gaining momentum.

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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. According to the report, the damage to the cable reduced Bangladesh’s internet capacity by a third.

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Total Telecom

DECEMBER 3, 2024

News The company currently has shared ownership of 16 subsea cables worldwide Meta is planning a $10 billion subsea cable project spanning 40,000 kilometres around the world, according to a new report from TechCrunch, citing two confirmed sources close to the company.

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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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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

News The 19,000km cable system is set to connect Malaysia to the US This week, Philippines operator Globe Telecom has announced that it has been selected to build and manage the local section of the MYUS cable system, including building a landing station at Davao City. The submarine cable industry is evolving rapidly.

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Telecom Talk

MARCH 28, 2025

Metas Project Waterworth, a 50,000-km undersea cable, will boost internet speeds, enhance AI applications, and support Indias digital expansion.

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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 two companies first signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the cable in 2022 Saudi Arabian telco Mobily has partnered with Telecom Egypt to launch the first submarine cable connecting Saudi Arabia and Egypt through the Red Sea. The cable will land at two stations: Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt and Duba in Saudi Arabia.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 20, 2025

the largest telecommunications provider in Alaska, announced that its emergency maintenance on the undersea fiberoptic cable to Sitka was successfully completed earlier this week , restoring all internet and communication services.  General Communication, Inc.,

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2025 – Much of Southeast Alaska was without phone or internet service over the weekend after an Alaska Communications subsea fiber cable broke last Friday. “Our technical team has confirmed damage to the ACS subsea cable system connecting Juneau. We are dispatching a repair ship.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 28, 2025

News The news comes as yet another submarine cable is damaged in the Baltic Sea, with authorities suspecting deliberate sabotage The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) is set to explore the security credentials of the UKs submarine cable ecosystem as part of a new industry enquiry.

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Total Telecom

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Rome, 26 November 2024 Sparkle , the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces the opening of an IP node in Genoa to meet the growing demand for internet transit driven by new technologies, multimedia platforms, and cloud-based services requiring highly efficient internet connectivity.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Under the agreement, Sparkle will provide IP Transit at its Point of Presence (PoP) in Milan, along with DDoS protection and other IP services in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, enabling Nexim to achieve high-speed, low-latency access to the global Internet, thus enhancing its customers’ online experience.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Rome/Dallas, 28 October 2024 Sparkle , the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces the pre-order launch of its Quantum Safe over Internet (QSI) service, the first product in its Network as a Service (NaaS) suite which soon will include additional use cases.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

home to 75,000 residents, may soon have a competitor to Comcast in the cable TV market, Mayor Paige G. The proposed agreement with Astound Broadband would give the company three years to build the local cable network at no cost to the city. Astound would be the first cable competitor to Comcast in Scranton.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

April 11, 2025 - Kansas has officially designated broadband and telecommunications systems as critical infrastructure, a move aimed at strengthening legal protections and deterring tampering with essential internet services. ”

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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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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 25, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2025 – Charter Communications lost 60,000 internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend of stagnation, but showing improvement over the 72,000 lost in the same period the year prior. Executives said wildfires in California were responsible for roughly 9,000 of those disconnects. technology.

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Light Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Cable One is piloting a new prepaid option for Internet customers that starts at $35 for 30 days of access. The operator continues to study whether to add mobile to the broadband bundle.

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Light Reading

MARCH 31, 2025

This week: Ryan Polk and Steve Song from the Internet Society join the podcast to discuss the rise in subsea cable cuts and the role of resilient Internet infrastructure in preventing and recovering from outages.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 8, 2025

… Cable has the highest level of internet access (39%). The study found that 3% of consumers do not have a dedicated internet connection at home. Fully 60% of respondents say their home internet is very reliable, but at the same time cite cost as the biggest issue. It is followed by fiber (31%) and FWA (9%).

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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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Telegeography

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Earlier this week, operators of two communications cables— C-Lion 1 and BCS East-West Interlink —reported faults in the Baltic Sea. Local internet service seems largely unaffected , but a swirl of sabotage allegations have emerged in the global press. Without making a ruling on any ongoing investigations, let’s look at the facts.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 7, 2025

April 7, 2025 – Charter Communications has officially acquired Bardstown Connect, the city-owned broadband and cable utility, for $49.5 Bardstown Connect had roughly 9,500 broadband and 5,000 cable TV customers at the time. million, ending nearly four decades of municipal ownership.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 8, 2025

Yet, according to Steve Smith, the internet service providers chief revenue officer, the company maintains distinct advantages by keeping a local focus. By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Catch the full episode here: LiveOak Fiber has been expanding their footprint across rural North Florida and Southern Georgia.

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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

News The heavy reliance on undersea cables remains a major risk as over 95% of global internet traffic depends on them UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has urged European leaders for increased cooperation on subsea infrastructure defences at a European Council meeting in Brussels. Get tickets here.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – A key Alaska city and a popular port of call for cruise ships has not had landline internet and cell phone service for days, and it could be at least another week before the restoration of normal service. Subsea fiber cable breaks can happen for different reasons. WASHINGTON, Sept. Alaska's first capital as a U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 19, 2025

million investment to upgrade internet access in nearly 8,000 public housing units across Massachusetts.  The program aims to improve broadband infrastructure by installing modern cabling, ensuring high-speed, reliable, and affordable internet for residents. "The Maura Healey (D) has announced a $10.4

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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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Light Reading

AUGUST 21, 2024

Scripps is in talks with NCTC about optimizing its new Tablo device for cable ops to support a content combo featuring free, over-the-air TV networks, FAST channels and an Internet-delivered pay-TV package focusing on entertainment.

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