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Work begins on E2A transpacific subsea cable

Total Telecom

SK Broadband, and Verizon Business has announced the start of construction of the East Asia to North America (E2A) submarine cable system. Photo courtesy of Chunghwa Telecom The system will be deployed by subsea cable specialist Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and is expected to be ready for service in H2 of 2028.

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Verizon's strategic miscalculation and the new T-Mobile, cable alliance

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The new business MVNO agreement between T-Mobile and cable MSOs Charter and Comcast 'redefines the role of every major player,' according to Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics. The deal puts pressure on Verizon and AT&T as the competitive landscape changes.

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A T-Mobile, UScellular combo may tilt mobile competition for Dish and cable companies

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The DoJ greenlit the T-Mobile-UScellular deal without much fuss, but wrinkles in the DoJ's opinion could affect Dish's plans to become a bona fide fourth national mobile carrier while handing more leverage to US cable ops.

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T-Mobile's new cable deal: Winners and losers

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T-Mobile, Charter and Comcast are the clear winners of a new business-focused MVNO deal. EchoStar loses out and so does Verizon, whose residential MVNO agreement with the cable operators could now be in jeopardy.

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Six Lakh Villages in India to Be Connected with Fibre Network in Three Years: Report

Telecom Talk

lakh in total—and their associated villages to a robust optical fibre cable (OFC) network “Within three years, we will have all the village panchayats, which are roughly about 2.5 lakh crore, has begun rolling out to connect every gram panchayat—approximately 2.5

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Building international scale, one fibre cable at a time: YOFC's Dr Zhuang Dan

Developing Telecoms

In the rapidly evolving world of telecommunications, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (YOFC) company has emerged as a global leader.

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US cable ops drive record gross mobile net adds in Q1

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Charter, Comcast and Altice USA added 886,000 mobile lines in Q1, but also drove a record 18% of total US mobile industry gross adds. That suggests cable is now pulling from a wider segment of the market, says MoffettNathanson.