GO-1 is a
submarine communications cable system that links
Sicily
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Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
, operated by the Maltese telecommunications company
GO.
It currently consists of a single cable, laid in 1995, linking
St George's Bay in Malta to
Catania in Sicily. The laying of the second leg of the system, linking
St Paul's Bay in Malta to
Mazara del Vallo
Mazara del Vallo (; ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Trapani, southwestern Sicily, Italy. It lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river.
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in Sicily, started in December 2008; it is expected to be operational in early 2009. As of December 2019, a third leg of the system was planned to connect with
Marseille
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,
France
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There were reports of cable failure on the St. George's Bay/Catania cable in December 2008, concurrent with the failure of several other cable systems at around the same time.
It has been speculated that these multiple failures of apparently unrelated submarine cable systems may have been related to seismic activity in the region.
See also
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VMSCS, another Malta-Sicily cable system
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2008 submarine cable disruption
The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications ca ...
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Works on the GO-1 Mediterranean Cable System start at St Paul’s BayCable-laying works on GO's second submarine link start at St Paul's BayGO to connect Malta to France and north-eastern Africa{{Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
Telecommunications in Malta
Italy–Malta relations
1995 establishments in Italy
1995 establishments in Malta