Telia’s Fridström explains how fibre providers can avoid a subsea sinking feeling
Subsea cable capacity will provide the backbone capacity to enable the vast number of new business requirements that are arriving with 5G, artificial intelligence, machine learning and within IoT. However, price pressure on cable providers, the demise of the consortium model and continued transformational innovation in technology are radically altering the operational mode – and economics – for subsea cable owners. Mattias Fridström, the chief evangelist at Telia Carrier, tells George Malim what this new mode of operation looks like and the challenges subsea cable operators face in meeting the new needs of customers while maintaining profitability.