Airtel joins undersea cable consortium to serve India’s fast growing digital economy
Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) has announced that it has joined the SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium to scale up its high-speed global network capacity to serve India’s fast-growing digital economy. The 19,200 Rkm SEA-ME-WE-6 will connect Singapore and France, and will be amongst the largest undersea cable systems globally. Airtel is participating as a major investor in […]
Jio’s new subsea cable system to connect Maldives with India and Singapore
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (Jio) has announced that it will land the next generation multi-terabit India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) undersea cable system in Hulhumale, Maldives. The high capacity and high-speed IAX system will connect Hulhumale directly with World’s major internet hubs in India and Singapore. “This is the first stride towards enhancing our connectivity infrastructure and opening […]
How the World’s First and Only Data Centre Project Will Change Billions of People’s Lives
With China’s Central government kicking off a project nicknamed “eastern data western calculation”, tech giants such as Tencent and Alibaba are planning to build more data centres. These data centres are being planned in western China with an intention to store and process more digital data in the country’s western provinces. China has approved the […]
Singtel & Consortium Begin Construction of Submarine Cable – Connecting Singapore to France
A consortium of companies which include Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has begun construction of a submarine cable system connecting multiple countries between Singapore and France. According to a report by BusinessTimes, the 19,200 kilometre-long submarine cable system will connect multiple countries from Singapore to France – traversing Malaysia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India, Pakistan, Djibouti, Saudi […]
How India’s OTT companies are handling a User Upsurge
The COVID19 pandemic had led to an increase in the consumption and subscriptions of OTT content in India. From K Dramas such as All of us are dead to the upcoming Deepika Padukone romantic movie ‘Gehraiyaan’, OTT players in India have anchored their presence in India. According to a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and […]
