Meta signs deal to pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables: ReportFacebook parent Meta Platforms has signed a deal to pay Gorilla Glass maker Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables for its AI dat...
27 Jan, 2026, 09.10 PM IST
Google’s five-year plan for India: A $15-billion tech hubPM Narendra Modi said the technology major’s investment aligns with the Viksit Bharat vision. “It will be a powerful force in democratising...
15 Oct, 2025, 02.14 PM IST
Google set to bet big on India with $10 billion Visakhapatnam data hub planGoogle plans a significant $10 bn investment to build its first Indian data center cluster in Visakhapatnam, with a 1 GW capacity. The faci...
08 Oct, 2025, 06.21 AM IST
Airtel lands SMW6 undersea cable system on Indian shoresBharti Airtel has advanced its undersea cable infrastructure by landing the SEA-ME-WE 6 system in India, connecting Mumbai and Chennai to S...
18 Feb, 2025, 12.15 AM IST
Google to run undersea internet cables to Pacific islands under Australia-US initiativeGoogle will take part in a combined US-Australian plan to set up undersea cables to connect eight Pacific Ocean countries to the internet. ...
25 Oct, 2023, 04.15 PM IST
Google to run internet cables to Pacific islands in Australia-US dealThe deal will expand an existing commercial project by Google in the region to the nations of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, P...
25 Oct, 2023, 03.34 PM IST
Inside the subsea cable firm secretly helping America take on ChinaOver the next month, the ship's crew covertly laid an underwater fiber-optic cable to the military base, an operation code-named "Big Wave,...
07 Jul, 2023, 09.11 AM IST
Google parent Alphabet bets on lasers to deliver internet in remote areasThe project known as Taara is part of Alphabet's innovation lab called X, also nicknamed the "Moonshot Factory." It was initiated in 2016 a...
26 Jun, 2023, 03.46 PM IST
Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015Google Fiber's growth plan comes as Alphabet and other companies slow hiring and shutter some fringe projects as worries about a global rec...
10 Aug, 2022, 05.57 PM IST
Wires that run the worldLast year, there were 4.28 billion mobile internet users on the planet, meaning that more than 90% of people who accessed the internet did ...
18 Sep, 2021, 09.12 AM IST
Facebook halts project for undersea data cable to Hong KongThe project was supposed to facilitate communications through fiber optics capable of carrying large volumes of data with very low waiting ...
11 Mar, 2021, 12.10 PM IST
Meghbela Broadband to launch services in West Bengal, takes on Jio, Airtel“We have partnered with the leading OTT platforms Amazon Prime, Zee5, Hungama, Hubhopper, ShemarooMe, Gaana along with Bengali players like...
11 Dec, 2020, 07.00 PM IST
Meghbela Broadband to launch services in West Bengal, takes on Jio, AirtelThe Kolkata-based internet service provider (ISP) which operates across 70 cities in India with a subscriber base of 150,000 users is targe...
11 Dec, 2020, 03.53 PM IST
Andhra Pradesh government signs agreements with Alphabet X for Fibergrid projectThe agreement was signed by Nara Lokesh, minister of IT, Government of Andhra Pradesh during his visit to Mountain View headquarters of Alp...
15 Dec, 2017, 08.12 PM IST
Google, RailTel join hands for one of the world's largest Wi-Fi projectsGoogle and RailTel Corp. of India have joined hands to equip 400 railways station in the country with high speed Wi-Fi networks.
28 Sep, 2015, 06.10 PM IST
Google to build ultra-fast broadband networksGoogle Inc plans to build a handful of experimental, ultra-fast broadband networks around the US to connect consumers to the Internet and e...
11 Feb, 2010, 04.33 AM IST
- Bharti joins five global telcos for US-Japan undersea cable
Bharti Airtel has joined hands with 5 international cos including internet giant Google to construct a new high-bandwidth, sub-sea cable sy...
27 Feb, 2008, 06.15 AM IST