{"id":1018565,"date":"2026-07-03T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018565"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:31:44","slug":"microsoft-partners-with-singapores-lightstorm-to-build-india-southeast-asia-undersea-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/microsoft-partners-with-singapores-lightstorm-to-build-india-southeast-asia-undersea-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft partners with Singapore&#8217;s Lightstorm to build India-Southeast Asia undersea cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium including Microsoft and telecom startup Lightstorm plans \u200bto build a new \u200bundersea cable linking India with Malaysia and Singapore as \u200btechnology firms compete to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India, one of the world&#8217;s fastest-growing data markets. <\/p>\n<p>The consortium, whose other members include Tata Communications, Singapore \u200cTelecommunications, Singapore&#8217;s \u2060ASEAN Cableship \u2060and Japan&#8217;s NEC Corporation, will construct the I-2SEA cable to support AI, cloud and hyperscale workloads, the companies said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>They did not provide additional details \u200bincluding the investment size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium including Microsoft and telecom startup Lightstorm plans \u200bto build a new \u200bundersea cable linking India with Malaysia and Singapore as \u200btechnology firms compete to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India, one of the world&#8217;s fastest-growing data markets. The consortium, whose other members include Tata Communications, Singapore \u200cTelecommunications, Singapore&#8217;s \u2060ASEAN Cableship \u2060and Japan&#8217;s NEC Corporation, will construct the I-2SEA cable to support AI, cloud and hyperscale workloads, the companies said on Thursday. They did not provide additional details \u200bincluding the investment size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018586,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018565\/revisions\/1018586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}