All Submarine/subsea networks articles – Page 8
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Telefónica Infra-Tech: Telxius lands subsea cable
Telxius plugs into Google’s Dunant cable and bulks up its own South American bandwidth.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Group: Tomorrow Street partner bags investment
Innovation partner SecurityScorecard lands more cash; TiVo maintains TV relationshi
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M&A
Telefónica sells infra biz to American Tower
Telxius finds a home at US infrastructure giant. Transaction expected to wipe €4.6bn off Telefónica net debt.
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M&A
Telxius prepares subsea business for sale — report
Telefónica TowerCo Telxius reportedly poking investors to see who bites. €2bn valuation for 100,000km-long submarine cable arm. Telxius’s terrestrial portion has seen continued growth, potentially readying for a pivot.
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Headline data: Another quarter of belt-tightening and falling revenue for Telefónica
Telefónica’s narrative of core market strength yet to fully win over doubters. Restructuring remains work-in-progress in Hispam, Tech, and Infra.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Europe: Greece targets submarine business
Vodafone Greece eyes submarine; cashiers going virtual in Spain; Vodafone UK blocked from handset blocking.
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Network & Infrastructure
Ciena trumpets iFusión role in Germany
Ciena’s Blue Planet platform to aid move towards disaggregated, multi-vendor transport network.
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Network & Infrastructure
OOPT telcos select vendors for Phoenix prototypes
Vendors selected to develop TIP’s open, disaggregated optical transponder. Operators again urge faster development.
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Operations
Glasgow and Dundee protected from office closures: BT
Ten cities now confirmed as locations BT plans to retain — although EE’s Hatfield base not yet on list.
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Digital Reports
Vodafonewatch Report #186 – May-June 2020
Key stories include: Read sticks to Plan A despite COVID | New Chairman offers refreshment | Czech kick-off for SD-WAN play | Hyper scalers enter Indian fray | Joosub keen to up fibre intake
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Vodafone jumps aboard 2Africa subsea cable project
Facebook features among consortium pals. Sign Vodafone Carrier Services has not been forgotten. Continent’s existing long-distance networks, including those co-owned by Group, seen as inadequate.
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Telefónica Chile remains without FOA access
Telefónica Chile is reportedly still unable to gain access to new fibre-optic infrastructure linking remote southern areas of the country.
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Vodafone Hutchison Australia inches towards TPG merger
VHA continued to inch towards its transformational merger with TPG Telecom after the two operators said they had received consent from the USA’s Committee for Foreign Investment and Federal Communications Commission.
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Telefónica Transformation: ahead of schedule but hitting a bump
Digital services revenue hits 17% revenue increase year-on-year, with the bulk coming from video services. Telefónica Infra remains barebones, but the future looks promising.
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Telxius, Orange supply backhaul for transatlantic submarine cable
Telxius is cooperating with Orange to supply backhaul connectivity for Dunant, a Google-backed submarine cable connecting Europe and the USA.
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Ciena upgrades Vodafone-backed Europe India Gateway cable
Network equipment provider Ciena highlighted involvement in an upgrade to the Europe India Gateway (EIG), a Vodafone-backed subsea cable system connecting India and the UK, via the Middle East.
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Network & Infrastructure
West Africa Cable System outage
The partly Vodafone-owned West Africa Cable System (WACS) suffered a major, prolonged outage in January 2020.
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Vodafone Partner Markets expands in Fiji
Vodafone expanded its Partner Markets relationship with Fijian ally Amalgamated Telecom Holdings
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Ciena flags Telxius role with new speed record
Commercial applications of record-breaking technology expected to see more flexible high capacity services over Telxius submarine cables.
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Álvarez Pallete into 5th gear on Telefónica transformation
‘Big Four’ operating businesses of Brazil, Germany, Spain and UK to be the focus of the Group, with Latin America operationally isolated, and potentially spun-off. New divisions Telefónica Infra and Telefónica Tech created. The former handling physical assets with Telxius as its cornerstone, while Telefónica Tech will drive commercial ...