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.
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The i3forum has added three new members to its organisation, Clear, Digicel and Lanck Telecom.
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The consultancy division of Tata is helping a rural carrier in the UK build a fibre broadband network over the next five years.
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Veon has reversed the centralisation policy of previous CEO Jean-Yves Charlier and is now insisting each of its 10 operating countries make their own investment cases.
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The Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda is threatening to withdraw Digicel’s mobile licence in the latest twist in a dispute over spectrum.
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The group CEO of Digicel, Alex Matuschka von Greiffenclau, has died – just days after completing a refinancing agreement with the company’s lenders.
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Digicel, the Caribbean mobile operator owned by Irish businessman Denis O’Brien, has brought in O’Brien’s subsea venture Deep Blue Cable to support its government contracts.
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Digicel has sold 451 of its towers in Jamaica to a US company for $90 million as its latest move to reduce its heavy debt.
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Digicel has won a 15-year contract to rebuild the telecoms and IT infrastructure of the Caribbean republic of Dominica, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria a year ago.
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Jean-Yves Charlier, who stepped down from the CEO position at Veon in March, has joined the board of directors of the Digicel group.
