BlueMed makes landfall in Sicily. Sparkle (Tim Group’s global operator) is laying a high-speed internet submarine cable across the Mediterranean Sea. On Tuesday, it successfully connected it to the “Sicily Hub” neutral data centre in Palermo, which is connected to eighteen other international cables.

BlueMed now stretches from Genoa to Golfo Aranci (Sardinia), Pomezia (near Rome) and Palermo (Sicily) and will be operational starting in late May, allowing high-speed connectivity between these crucial hubs in the Tyrrhenian Sea and readying them to link up with more in the wider Mediterranean area – and beyond.