Subsea cables: Vodafone heads ‘off beaten track’ as hyperscalers muscle in on mainstream
Capacity Europe 2025: Vodafone’s Head of Global Infrastructure Owen Bryant considers the role telcos should play in transcontinental infra links as hyperscalers investment billions into subsea infra. Vodafone, for its part, is focused on ‘red’ markets that lie outside Google and Meta’s core interests…
This article includes:
- Themes: AI; Capacity investment; Collaboration; Data sovereignty; Digital infrastructure; Fibre pairs; Hyperscaler dominance; International backbone; Market economics; Merger and acquisition (M&A); Niche strategy; Regulatory expertise; Submarine cable lifecycle; Subsea connectivity; Telco transformation; Terrestrial networks.
- Events: Capacity Europe 2025; Dotcom boom; Kardesa investment; Project Waterworth; Thetis Express build.
- People: Colin Bannon; Michaël Trabbia; Mohamed Noweir; Owen Bryant; Tansy McCluskie.
- Geographic: Aegean; Asia-Pacific; Atlantic; Black Sea; Bulgaria; Crete; Georgia; Greece; Pacific; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom.
- Organisations: A1; Amazon; Apollo Submarine Cable System Limited; BT; BT Business; Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&WW); Cellfie Mobile; Digital Realty; Google; Meta; Microsoft; Mobily; Orange Wholesale; TeleGeography; Vodafone; Vodafone Business; Vodafone Greece; Vodafone Ukraine.
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