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Construction Begins on Bangladesh’s First Privately-Owned Subsea Cable

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September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

The 1,300-km cable will connect Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh to the Campana-owned UMO subsea cable, which runs from Thanlyin in Myanmar to Tuas in Singapore. The project is expected to go into service in the first quarter of 2026. Sep 16, 2024 The Bangladesh Private Cable System, a consortium of......

India to lease bandwidth from Bangladesh

wirecableSeptember 19, 2013April 28, 2016

September 19, 2013April 28, 2016

August 13, 2013 For the first time India will turn to Bangladesh for meeting its global telecom connectivity requirements. It plans to lease nearly 100 gigabytes (GBs) of international bandwidth from two state-owned suppliers in the neighbouring country to route a chunk of India’s overseas call and data traffic through......

India – Bangladesh considering “tele-transit” through optical fiber cable

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July 19, 2013April 30, 2016

May 6, 2013 The Government of India, seeking fiber optic connectivity for its seven eastern states, has sent a letter to the foreign ministry of Bangladesh and other related ministries asking Bangladesh Government’s view on the issue of “tele-transit” through optical fiber via Akhaura border. The letter asking the view......