Digicel
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Digicel has deployed Infinera’s GX Series, featuring Infinera’s ICE6 800G and FlexILS solutions, to light the Deep Blue One subsea cable connecting French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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A new cable brings crucial redundancy to the region and big benefits to the energy sector.
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Oliver Coughlan the CEO of Digicel group is to step down from the role in December due to retirement, according to The Irish Times.
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Digicel Pacific is bolstering its coverage in Papua New Guinea using SES’s O3b medium-earth orbit (MEO) satellite system.
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Kacific Broadband Satellites has installed resilient infrastructure for Tonga’s state-owned telecoms company, to make connections more secure after this year’s volcano.
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Digicel Pacific – now owned by Telstra – has extended its partnership with satellite company SES to provide resilient communications to Tonga, which was cut off by a volcano earlier this year.
Forthcoming events
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Digicel Group (Digicel) has completed the sale of Digicel Pacific, its wholly owned subsidiary, to a subsidiary of Telstra.
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Digicel’s US$1.6 billion sale of its Pacific business to Telstra is likely to close by the end of July, according to reports from Ireland, the home of Digicel’s owner Denis O’Brien.
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Shally Jannif, regional CEO of Digicel Pacific, speaks to Natalie Bannerman about her plans for the region amid growing D&I, network investments and volcano eruptions.
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Digicel Group has deployed Enea AdaptiveMobile Security’s signalling security solution across its network footprint in the Caribbean and Central America.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tax wrangles in PNG to a series of new exchanges in the GCC.
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Digicel Panama will withdraw from the telecommunications market in the country following the approval of the Cable & Wireless acquisition of Claro, in which the government is a major shareholder.
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Digicel is fighting with the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) over a demand that it pay in tax US$100 million if it sells its Pacific operations to Telstra.
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Last month’s volcano destroyed or damaged more than 80km of subsea cable connecting the Pacific islands of Tonga to Fiji.
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Satellites have reconnected Tonga in the south Pacific following the volcano disaster two weeks ago – but the 105,000 population have less than 20% of the capacity they are used to via subsea cable.
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The government of Tonga has temporarily suspended its dispute with satellite company Kacific so that it can provide 1Gbps to the volcano-hit islands.
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Telecoms services are now back in operation between Tonga and the world, less than a week after a massive volcano cut two subsea cables.
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Tonga Cable, the sole physical link to the south Pacific island group, was cut at the weekend by a massive volcano.