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20/10/2026

India’s Jio Platforms heads into its IPO with heavy global demand.

The telecom and digital arm of Reliance Industries allotted 81.1 billion rupees (about $854 million) worth of shares to 212 anchor investors on Monday at 1,119 rupees (about $11.80) each, the top of its price band. Bids for that portion reached roughly 2.5 trillion rupees ($26.3 billion), more than 30 times the shares available.

Anchor investors are large institutions that commit before an IPO opens to the public. This group includes BlackRock, Singapore’s GIC, Capital Group, Fidelity, JPMorgan Asset Management, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and India’s state insurer LIC.

The full offering aims to raise up to $3.2 billion. That makes it India’s largest IPO ever in rupee terms and the second largest in dollar terms. Public bidding runs Wednesday to Friday.

At the top of the range, Jio is valued at about $108 billion, below the $130 billion-plus figures floated a year ago. Up to $2.9 billion of the proceeds will go to paying down debt at its mobile operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm.

Source: CNBC

Jio Platforms plans to raise up to $3.2 billion through an IPO, which is India's largest ever in rupee terms, but the second largest in dollar terms.

16/10/2026

Malaysia has set a timeline for SALAM, its RM2 billion (about $490 million) domestic submarine cable. The regulator, MCMC, says construction should start in Q1 2027 and finish by Q4 2029, and bids are now being evaluated.

SALAM will run about 5,582 km in four segments with 10 landing stations, linking Peninsular Malaysia with Sabah and Sarawak on Borneo. Proposed landing areas include Sedili, Kuching, Sibu, Kudat, Sandakan and Tawau. It will replace the ageing SCREAM system, the main link between the peninsula and Borneo for over a decade, and add route diversity and backup capacity for 5G, data centres and AI.

It will be paid for through Malaysia’s universal service fund, which is financed by telecom licensees.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 — The Madani Submarine Cable (Salam) project, which aims to strengthen communications connectivity between Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, is...

01/10/2026

𝗔 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗻: 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆

EllaLink has announced the EllaLink Caribbean Gateway, a new open, carrier-neutral submarine cable. It starts in Cayenne, French Guiana, and runs north through Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and the Windward Islands to Martinique and Guadeloupe, with a western branch to Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. The cable gives these territories a second, separate route to Europe, Brazil and North America. That matters because many of the region's current cables reach end of life by 2031. Each territory will own its own branch and decide how its capacity is sold locally. The cable is due to be ready for service by the end of 2029.

🔗 https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/29/3371081/0/en/ellalink-launches-the-caribbean-gateway-initiative.html

EllaLink launches the Caribbean Gateway Initiative...

24/09/2026

𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮'𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰

Meta has announced Petal, a ~7,000 km France–US subsea cable designed to carry 1 Pbps. That is double today's most advanced transatlantic systems and 5.5x the capacity of Marea.

🔹 First subsea cable to use 2-core (multi-core) fibre at scale: 24 fibre pairs delivering the equivalent of 48
🔹 Double the capacity without a proportional increase in power, staying within existing 18 kV power-feeding limits
🔹 New single-body repeater amplifying 96 fibre cores
🔹 Built by NEC with Sumitomo Electric fibre; Orange handles the French landing
🔹 Expected in service in 2029

Multi-core fibre is moving from the lab to mainstream deployment, a shift the whole wholesale capacity market will feel.

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Petal, the next step in Meta’s subsea innovation, will be the first subsea cable to deliver petabit capacity at transoceanic distances, connecting France and the United States over approximately 7,…

09/09/2026

𝗥𝗲𝘂𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡: 𝗔 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗘𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 🌊🌐

Réunion has officially launched ReuNION (Reunion New Indian Ocean Network) — a new subsea cable linking Saint-Paul to Durban, South Africa, at a cost of close to €90 million. 16 fibre pairs at 20 Tbps each, built to strengthen network resilience and cut latency.

The island currently relies on SAFE, METISS and LION, and SAFE reaches end of life in 2027. A second phase will extend the system towards Singapore. Target service date: 2028.

A strong signal for the whole Indian Ocean region — digital sovereignty depends on route diversity. 🇷🇪

📰 https://www.ouest-france.fr/region-la-reunion/a-la-reunion-la-construction-dun-nouveau-cable-sous-marin-pour-securiser-sa-connexion-avec-le-reste-du-monde-9b93dcfa-a6eb-11f1-b1e9-efa0fbfcae5d

Pour éviter un éventuel black-out d’internet en raison d’un réseau saturé, un consortium public-privé va construire un nouveau câble sous-marin de fibres optiques reliant La Réunion à l’Afrique du Sud. Un investissement à plus de 93 millions d’euros. Le conseil régional défend un ...

31/08/2026

𝟱𝟬% 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗼 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰

India's market regulator has cleared Jio Platforms, India's biggest telecom and digital services operator, to launch its public issue — potentially the country's largest IPO ever. The company is expected to raise around ₹377 billion (~$3.9 billion), beating the previous record held by Hyundai Motor India.

The offer covers up to 270 million new shares, with proceeds going to cut debt at Reliance Jio Infocomm. Meta's affiliate Jaadhu Holdings (~10%) and Google International (7.7%) are staying put — neither is selling.Meanwhile, the National Stock Exchange's own mega-listing is still waiting on regulatory clearance.

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India's largest digital and telecom operator, Jio Platforms, got a regulatory nod for an IPO, but the National Stock Exchange, another mega issue, is still awaiting regulatory clearance.

25/08/2026

$𝟱𝟯𝗠 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿

Bangladesh's Posts and Telecommunications Division has told authorities not to clear the two cable ships hired to lay the country's first privately funded subsea cable — no clearance without a formal recommendation from the division.

The BPCS consortium (Summit Communications, CdNet Communications, Metacore Subcom) has already sunk around $53 million into preparatory work. The stated concerns: licence conditions, national security, and protecting the state-backed incumbent's investment.

A reminder that in wholesale connectivity, the hardest part is rarely the engineering. It's the permit.

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Bangladesh has withheld vessel clearance for the first private subsea cable, delaying BPCS installation and raising approval barriers.

20/07/2026

𝗧𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘀 $𝟭𝟱𝟮𝗠 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮–𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗼𝗿

Tata Communications is investing $152 million to add 98 Tbps of subsea capacity between India and Singapore, one of the world's busiest digital corridors. The plan splits across two cables: a $63M upgrade on the MIST system (Mumbai–Singapore, 20 Tbps, RFS Q4 FY27) and $89M into the new Project CS / I-2SEA consortium build (Chennai–Singapore, 78 Tbps, RFS ~2030). The goal is to feed surging AI, hyperscaler, and cloud demand, with the new capacity backhauled into Tata's 200,000 km Indian fiber network and 100+ data centres. Funded entirely through internal accruals.
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Tata has announced a cumulative investment of $152 million USD on two subsea cables, MIST and Project CS. The major capital deployment is specifically engi

01/07/2026

It's live. Orange Tunisia just activated the Medusa submarine cable—a major leap forward for international connectivity across the Mediterranean.

Orange Tunisia has announced the operational commissioning of the Medusa submarine cable, a strategic digital infrastructure that sustainably strengthens Tunisia’s international connectivity and consolidates its positioning as a digital gateway between the two shores of the Mediterranean. After la...

08/06/2026

ViaTunisia reaches Ready for Service: a new direct subsea link between Europe and North Africa is now operational.

The ViaTunisia subsea cable segment between Marseille in France, and Bizerte in Tunisia, has reached Ready for Service (RFS), marking the transition from construction to full operational availability

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