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The Hormuz digital chokepoint: Where oil, war and the internet collideIran has highlighted the vulnerability of submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz. These vital undersea links carry 99% of global internet...
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...
ITU & ICPC launch International Advisory Body to boost submarine cable resilienceThe ITU and ICPC have launched a 40-member advisory body, including India's telecom secretary, to bolster the resilience of submarine cable...
Declare CLS as critical infra; submarine cable repair as essential service: TraiThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recommended the Department of Telecom to form a committee to work on different financial v...
Trai seeks views on ways to attract investments to bring subsea cable systems to IndiaIn its discussion paper, issued Friday evening, Trai said that the DoT, in a reference in August 2022, had voiced concerns that while some ...
Submarine cable system: Domestic companies cry foul, seek PMO interventionOn March 10, BSNL invited bids for the design, engineering, planning, supply and deployment of a submarine cable system between mainland Ko...
Telecom gear makers seek inclusion of locally available tech for KLI undersea fibre link projectDomestic telecom gear makers have approached the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to include technologies available with indigenous p...
'Chennai-Andaman submarine cable system project to be completed by 2020'NEC Corporation, the parent company of NECTI, will manufacture the optical submarine cable at its facility in Japan and provide technical a...
Trai seeks views on charges for accessing submarine cable bandwidthThere are presently 16 submarine cable systems, which connect India to the rest of the world.
Airtel partners with Telecom Egypt for global submarine cable systemsBharti Airtel and Telecom Egypt today announced a strategic partnership through which the Indian firm will get the right to use submarine c...
Bharti Airtel to buy optical network gear from US-based Ciena CommunicationsBharti Airtel will buy optical network gear from Ciena Communications to ramp up capacity of its i2i undersea cable network linking India a...
Reliance Globalcom may acquire optical network gear from US company CienaGlobalcom, which runs RCOM's global carrier operations, is upgrading its international subsea cable assets spanning 73,000 route km.
- Bharti, RCom seek telecom corridor through Bangladesh: Report
Telecom majors Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications have sought to build a fibre optic network in Bangladesh to get connected to the i...
- MTNL likely to get ILD license before December
MTNL is likely to get international long distance license before the end of the year as DoT has started processing its application.
- Millennium Telecom floats Rs 1600-cr submarine cable tender
Millennium Telecom, the joint venture company of the two telecom PSUs --MTNL and MTNL -- have floated a Rs 1600-crore tender to lay a subma...
- Bharti may partner VSNL in Indo-Europe cable plan
Tatas-Owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) has invited Bharti Airtel to be one of its partners in the upcoming $350-million undersea link conn...
- Trai for open access at ILD cable landing stations
Move to boost competition in bandwidth segment & bring down prices.