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1 week ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
2 min readSterling, Virginia – Submarine Telecoms Forum, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the 54th edition of the Submarine Cable Almanac, a special SubOptic 2025 edition styled after our historical Submarine Cables of the World print map. Attendees of the SubOptic 2025 conference will receive a limited print edition, continuing our legacy of delivering high-quality reference tools for the submarine cable industry.
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1 week ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
Welcome to SubTel Forum! Today is : May 30, 2025
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1 week ago | 
golfshake.com | Kieran Clark
It's been five years since the World Handicap System (WHS) was introduced in England, Scotland, Wales and the island of Ireland - bringing in a new era that supplanted the structure that golfers had been used to for generations. There have been small tweaks along the way since then, but the system that was engineered to ensure consistency across the globe and to simplify the handicapping process is undeniably here to stay. But are golfers themselves happy about that?
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1 week ago | 
golfshake.com | Kieran Clark
Ranking golf courses is a tricky but hugely popular business as golfing enthusiasts simply love to debate and argue the merits of venues that they have experienced. Each publication has its own methodology for how these things are determined when they publish rankings, but on Golfshake, we defer to the everyday golfers who play and submit their reviews of layouts in our Course Section.
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2 weeks ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
1.9 min readCyta has taken a major step in consolidating Cyprus’ position as a regional digital infrastructure hub with the acquisition of Simplex’s flagship LCA1 data centre in Larnaca – the country’s largest privately owned facility of its kind.
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2 weeks ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
1.7 min readThe long-running story of service quality issues in Cameroon rumbles on with news that the country’s Telecommunications Regulatory Board (ART) has initiated a new restricted tender for an audit of Cameroon's national fibre optic network. This move, which apparently took place on 12 May but is only now being widely reported, comes amid persistent criticism over the quality of telecom services across the nation.
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2 weeks ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
1.7 min readToday, we’re announcing the extension of the Malbec subsea cable to the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Developed by Meta, in partnership with V.tal, Malbec is a 2,500 km cable that entered service in 2021 to provide connectivity between the Southern Cone of South America and Brazil. The new extension will be operational in 2027 and will link Porto Alegre to the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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2 weeks ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
1.6 min readThe East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS) has reached its second cable landing station in Kosrae, in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Kosrae is one of the four states that make up the FSM. The cable landing follows the successful delivery of EMCS's first cable landing station in Pohnpei in February. The project is a joint initiative of the Governments of FSM, Kiribati, and Nauru, and is funded jointly by Australia, Japan, and the United States.
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2 weeks ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
1.9 min readInfiniVAN, Inc. (InfiniVAN), a leading internet service provider (ISP) in the Philippines, has signed a construction agreement with Taisei Philippine Construction Inc. (TPCI) to build a USD 15-million fiber cable landing station (CLS) in Baler, Aurora. The initiative aims to enhance the country’s connectivity infrastructure by utilizing subsea network technology.
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2 weeks ago | 
subtelforum.com | Kieran Clark
1.3 min readSri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata announced on Monday it will invest another US$100 million in its digital infrastructure, increasing its total cumulative investment in the country to more than US$3.37 billion. The investment includes US$81 million from Dialog Axiata and US$19 million from Dialog Broadband Networks, which have both been formalised via separate supplementary agreements with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI).
