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The TRAI said that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) approached it, raising its concerns that some Indian International Long Distance Operators (ILDOs) that do not have any stakes in submarine cable systems are seeking clearance on behalf of the owners for laying or maintaining such cables in Indian territorial water or exclusive economic zones, and also for applying to set up Cable Landing Stations ( CLS) for such submarine cables. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI) has initiated a discussion on the licensing framework and regulatory mechanism for submarine cable landing in India. The system will be RFS at the end of 2024 for the West Med region and the first half of 2025 for the East Med region. The cable will feature festoon architecture and will have segments with up to 24 fibre pairs with a capacity of 20Tbps per fibre pair. As currently planned, the 8,760km Medusa is aiming to connect ten countries along the Mediterranean (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt) with 16 landing points. Morocco will be connected to the Medusa Submarine Cable System at the beginning of 2025, as part of an EU-backed strategic plan which will see the European Investment Bank ( EIB) provide EUR100 million (USD105.7 million) to co-finance the submarine cable connection between a number of countries in North Africa and Southern Europe. TeleGeography notes that Argentina’s National Communications Agency (Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones, ENACOM) approved the installation of Firmina in Argentine territorial waters in August 2022. The President gave Google two years to present a plan to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining ( MIEM), detailing the actions to be carried out regarding the new submarine cable system.

Construction and installation of the cable was commissioned to US company SubCom, with a ready for service ( RFS) date currently scheduled for late 2023.Įlsewhere, Uruguay’s President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou has also formally approved the installation of Google’s Firmina submarine cable system in the country. Each fibre pair will have a total design capacity of approximately 15Tbps (for a total of approximately 240Tbps).

The main trunk will have a total length of 13,413km and will consist of 16 fibre pairs, while the branch to Praia Grande will comprise 24 fibre pairs (580km), Punta del Este (twelve fibre pairs, 524km), Puerto Rico/Dominican Republic (twelve fibre pairs) and Fortaleza (16 fibre pairs). In addition, there are two planned BUs, one with a stubbed branch pointing towards Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic and another towards Fortaleza (Brazil). The system will comprise a main trunk from Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, US) to Las Toninas (Argentina), with two branching units (BUs) connecting branches to Praia Grande (Brazil) and Punta del Este (Uruguay).

First announced in 2021, Firmina is a private, non-common carrier submarine fibre-optic cable aiming to connect the US, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector has advised the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC) that it has no objection to the FCC approving an application submitted by Google for the deployment of the Firmina submarine cable system in US territorial waters, provided that the approval is conditional on the commitments set forth in a Letter of Agreement ( LOA) dated 30 November 2022.