Telecom Italia Unit Sparkle Wins Best Subsea Innovation Award

By Public Technologies
  • Telecom Italia unit Sparkle won the Best Subsea Innovation award at the Global Connectivity Awards during Capacity Europe 2026 in London.
  • The award recognizes Sparkle's work turning submarine fiber-optic cables into sensing infrastructure for seismic activity, environmental monitoring and network protection.
  • Its EU-funded ECSTATIC project uses the BlueMed submarine cable to validate fiber-optic sensing applications.
  • Sparkle is developing a scalable multisensing model using existing network infrastructure while keeping data within its operational perimeter.


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