Google in partnership with major regional telecom providers – India’s Bharti Airtel, Malaysia’s Global Transit, Japanese KDDI, Hong Kong based Pacnet and Singapore’s SingTel – is planning for a Unity cable project to lay a 6,200-mile undersea cable linking the U.S. and Japan through the trans-Pacific route. The project costs about US$300 million, and the … Read full story »
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved recommendations from TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) to permit operators to share active tower infrastructure.
Until now, operators have only been allowed to share passive infrastructure including the towers, shelters, cooling systems, AC and DC power supply, diesel generators, air conditioning, site leases and other electrical and civil … Read full story »
The Inetrnet outage happened last week affected many of us with slow internet speed or total disruption of service. The two cables FLAG Europe Asia and South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) were cut on the ocean floor just north of Alexandria, Egypt. The Flag Telecom Europe-Asia cable is owned by India’s Reliance … Read full story »
