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    New ITU undersea cable protection group holds first meeting

    Financial/Regulation
    Most cable damage is caused by human error or natural activity but there are grey areas when it comes to legal responsibilities in international water – and this needs to change
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    Sparkle to use fibre optic cables to detect seismic shifts

    Access
    The Italian wholesaler joins the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) to monitor earthquakes and tidal waves
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    Aqua Comms, Ciena set new 1.3Tbps subsea record

    Optical/IP
    They also achieved a world-first 800Gbps transmission across the Atlantic and back (c11,000km) without signal regeneration
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    Telefónica’s Peruvian fibre sale falls through 

    Access
    More bad news for the Spanish telco after booking a non-cash €314 million write-down on its Peruvian unit in Q3
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    Subsea threat helps boom in cables and new, 200Gbps satellite tech

    Satellite
    Stories about sabotaged and threatened subsea cables abound, but there are silver linings too as space comms look destined to move from radio to lasers
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    LINX expands African footprint with new Ghana and Kenya interconnects

    Cloud/NFV
    The London Internet Exchange (LINX) targets east and west Africa where more subsea cables are landing
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    Council of State backs Arcep over €26 mln fine for Orange

    Access
    France’s Conseil d’État validates the regulator’s decision imposing a penalty on Orange for failing to meet its “AMII area” fibre rollout commitments
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    Mobily’s first subsea cable is first to directly link Saudi and Egypt

    Optical/IP
    The new cable will be wholly owned by Mobily and pass through the Red Sea with landing stations at Sharm El Sheikh and Duba
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    EXA enters Finland, opens transatlantic route avoiding FLAP

    Optical/IP
    Integration with the Havfrue Transatlantic system offers direct route to the US avoiding the datacentre clusters around Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris
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    Mobily adds Sparkle to connect Europe, the Middle East and SE Asia

    News
    The two will create 'a new digital corridor' linking Italy to Singapore through Mobily's terrestrial network and the AAE1 cable in Jeddah
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    Colt links London, Chicago in 800GbE optical and IP trial

    Optical/IP
    Nokia and Windstream Wholesale partnered the B2B operator in testing the potential capacity, speed and low latency on this transatlantic route
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    Worldwide telecom equipment sales fell 17% in H1 of the year

    Financial/Regulation
    Dell’Oro says the slump that characterised the second half of 2023 continued into this year across the six sectors it tracks
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    LINX extends Kenyan interconnect with PAIX Data Centres 

    Access
    LINX Nairobi provides peering services and more utilising a neutral, multi-site interconnection fabric
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    Swedish Bahnhof enters Danish broadband market with Norlys 

    Access
    Connection comes through Denmark’s open access wholesale platform OpenNet
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    Bayobab completes new East Africa fibre route 

    Access
    Region is benefitting from several fibre developments including Google cable to Australia
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