Digicel to fund $16 million fiber link to Haiti

Telecommunications provider Digicel said it will entirely fund a US$16 million project to run a 200 kilometre-long undersea, fiber-optic cable linking Haiti to the rest of the world via Internet connectivity.

The company announced today that the project was being undertaken in conjunction with Columbus Networks, the leading undersea fibre-optic cable network provider in the Pan Caribbean-Americas region, and Alcatel-Lucent as technology supplier.

The earthquake in January 2010 damaged or destroyed much of Haiti’s communications infrastructure – including the country’s only other subsea cable link which, to date, has not been sufficiently reactivated and secured against risk of impact from future seismic events, according to Digicel.

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