Digicel
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Digicel Pacific is bolstering its coverage in Papua New Guinea using SES’s O3b medium-earth orbit (MEO) satellite system. -
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.
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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.
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Natalie Bannerman speaks to Peter Hobbs, group director of international and wholesale business at Digicel Group, about the company’s Deep Blue One subsea cable and what it means as part of Digicel’s digital-first roadmap.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from geopolitics in TMT to sustainability in Poland.
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Digicel Group has entered into an agreement to sell its subsidiary Digicel Pacific, to a subsidiary of Australian telco Telstra Corporation, at a purchase price of $1.6 billion.
