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. -
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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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.
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Digicel confirms that it is to build its Deep Blue One subsea cable and is partnering with Orange to extend the system from Trinidad to French Guiana.
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Australia's Telstra has confirmed that it has conducted talks with the Australian government to support its bid for Digicel's Pacific assets and operations.
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Life has been challenging for Digicel, with earthquakes, hurricanes, financial troubles and now Covid. New CEO Oliver Coughlan tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that the company has a new strategy to build growth
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Verizon and Digicel have joined other major brands in its advertising strike against Facebook.
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Troubled Caribbean and Pacific operator Digicel will emerge from its debt reduction process this week after winning huge support from its lenders.
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Digicel has received “overwhelming support” from its debtholders for its restructuring, the company has told Capacity.
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Digicel, the Caribbean and Pacific mobile operator, has filed for bankruptcy, saying it has “unsustainable levels of indebtedness”.
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Digicel Group has progressed its new restructuring plan with the issuing of practice statement letter.
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Veon has appointed two co-CEOs of the group, replacing chairman Ursula Burns’s CEO role, which she has had since the end of 2018. Burns will stay on as chairman.
