Bell Canada is about to dig deep to connect about 20,000 homes in Sarnia and Point Edward with fibre-optic cables the company say will provide “world class” Internet and “rock solid” reliability. The telecommunications giant is spending more than $50 million in Sarnia to provide home and commercial customers with better phone and TV service and g...

Developer and operator of subsea fibre-optic systems Deep Blue Cable is to begin the deployment of a 12,000Km cable which will connect the Caribbean to the Americas. The company has contracted with TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, to build and lay the Deep Blue subsea cable system. The pan-Caribbean system will initially count with landing

Google is scaling up investment in Africa by laying fibre optic cable, easing access to cheaper Android phones, and training a workforce in digital skills as the US technology giant seeks to expand on the continent. "We laid about 1,000km of fibre in Uganda and we are busy doing about 1,000km in Ghana," Google’s SA head Luke Mckend said. "We want...

TE SubCom, a company specialized in submarine cable network technology, and Ciena have signed a strategic alliance to work on the development of open submarine cable networking solutions. The two firms said the alliance will allow customers seeking a single point of contact for both wet plant and dry plant to combine TE SubCom’s advanced wet plan...

Nextgen Group and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks have switched on Australia’s first purpose-built, subsea, fibre optic network, running 2,100 km from Darwin to Pert Hedland. The North West Cable System (NWCS) creates a link from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Port Hedland in Western Australia, and connects the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG P...

A R250-million new optical fibre cable manufacturing plant at Dube TradePort, north of Durban, would be fully operational by January 2017, proving that much-needed industrial development could be fast-tracked, government officials said at a sod-turning event at the construction site on Friday. The investment by State-owned Chinese investor, Yangt...