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Having just spent a couple of stimulating days in Kuala Lumpur at yet another well attended Capacity Asia conference, I am now looking forward to the upcoming PTC conference in anticipation of further discussions on some of the most interesting elements of the KL conference. Latency and network security were again topics which piqued the interest of the participants. There was real fascination with the developments of the Arctic cable across the north of Canada, but also the recent news that the Polarnet project across the waters north of Russia may be revived. When you link these initiatives with those of Hibernia and Emerald across the Atlantic, you can see that drive for lower latency is strong.

Russia’s third largest player Vimpelcom could reportedly sell, merge or refinance its Italian unit, Wind.

BlackBerry has called off its sale plans and yesterday announced that its CEO, Thorsten Heins, would be stepping down.

The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) and Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications are looking into plans to construct the EUROPA cable system, linking the two countries.

The first round of bidding has started in Norway’s mobile spectrum auction, according to reports.

Etisalat Nigeria has hit 15 million subscribers four years after launching operations in the country.

The world’s largest internet company, Google, has announced today it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.

Emerging economies are good news for global carriers looking for business growth – and global carriers are good news for emerging economies looking for better international connectivity.

The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) subsea cable has landed at the Penmarc’h cable station in Brittany in France, the last major economy to be connected before the system goes live in 2012.

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