{"id":906613,"date":"2025-02-18T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=906613"},"modified":"2025-02-18T07:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T02:16:41","slug":"airtel-lands-subsea-cable-in-chennai-to-connect-india-to-singapore-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/18\/airtel-lands-subsea-cable-in-chennai-to-connect-india-to-singapore-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel lands subsea cable in Chennai to connect India to Singapore, France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed 21,700 km-long optical fibre submarine cable called SEA-ME-WE 6 &#8212; which will connect India to Singapore and France (Marseille) &#8212; came a step closer to reality on Monday as Bharti Airtel announced its landing in Chennai. <\/p>\n<p>The company had already landed the SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6, or SMW6) cable in Mumbai on December 30, 2024. It is expected to become operational in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed 21,700 km-long optical fibre submarine cable called SEA-ME-WE 6 &#8212; which will connect India to Singapore and France (Marseille) &#8212; came a step closer to reality on Monday as Bharti Airtel announced its landing in Chennai. The company had already landed the SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6, or SMW6) cable in Mumbai on December 30, 2024. It is expected to become operational in 2026.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906613","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=906613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}