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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Digicel unveils new subsea cable

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PETER CHRISTOPHER
403 days ago
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Digicel Group new Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Cataldo

Digicel Group new Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Cataldo

COURTESY: DIGICEL GROUP

The Dig­i­cel Group has an­nounced the ac­ti­va­tion of its sub­sea fi­bre ca­ble, Deep Blue One.

In a re­lease on yes­ter­day, Dig­i­cel said, “This sig­nif­i­cant in­vest­ment in in­ter­na­tion­al sub­ma­rine ca­pac­i­ty will su­per­charge con­nec­tiv­i­ty across the Caribbean and South Amer­i­ca, par­tic­u­lar­ly ben­e­fit­ing French Guiana, Suri­name, Guyana and Trinidad & To­ba­go.”

Sub­sea fi­bre ca­bles are used for the pro­vi­sion of in­ter­net con­nec­tion ser­vices. Over the years most of T&T providers (most no­tably, Flow, Dig­i­cel,TSTT/Am­plia) have been im­pact­ed by con­nec­tion is­sues due to break­ages or dis­rup­tion to these ca­bles.

The com­pa­ny said this “ad­vanced fi­bre ca­ble net­work will pro­vide seam­less con­nec­tiv­i­ty to the coun­tries it serves, fa­cil­i­tat­ing un­in­ter­rupt­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tion and re­al-time da­ta trans­mis­sion. Deep Blue One al­so presents an in­valu­able op­por­tu­ni­ty to con­nect off­shore oil and gas rigs, sup­port­ing the grow­ing en­er­gy sec­tor in the re­gion and fos­ter­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion among key stake­hold­ers in the oil and gas in­dus­try.”

Marce­lo Catal­do, Dig­i­cel Group’s Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer said, “Sub­sea fi­bre has long been the back­bone of glob­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty, and Deep Blue One is set to serve as a cat­a­lyst for the next wave of eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment in the re­gion. At Dig­i­cel, our fo­cus has al­ways been on keep­ing our cus­tomers con­nect­ed to the peo­ple and things that mat­ter most; dri­ving eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment in the coun­tries we serve is a key part of that. This is an ex­cit­ing mile­stone for us, and we are com­mit­ted to un­lock­ing new op­por­tu­ni­ties for growth and in­no­va­tion across the re­gion.”

Catal­do took the reins as Dig­i­cel CEO in May, re­plac­ing Maarten Boute, who served as in­ter­im Group CEO since the com­ple­tion of the com­pa­ny’s debt re­struc­tur­ing in Jan­u­ary. Boute re­turned to his pri­or role as Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer.

Dig­i­cel went in­to debt re­struc­tur­ing in June 2023, af­ter en­ter­ing in­to a debt right off agree­ment ear­li­er in that year.

The re­lease ex­plained Deep Blue One’s re­dun­dant path­ways and cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy en­sures re­li­a­bil­i­ty, op­ti­mal op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy and min­i­mal down­time even in chal­leng­ing en­vi­ron­ments.

The re­lease added, “Lever­ag­ing the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy, this sub­sea ca­ble net­work is al­so de­signed to ac­com­mo­date fu­ture growth and evolv­ing tech­no­log­i­cal re­quire­ments, of­fer­ing scal­a­bil­i­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty to meet in­dus­try de­mands. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, as part of Dig­i­cel’s com­mit­ment to min­imis­ing its en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact, the build out of Deep Blue One pri­ori­tised sus­tain­able prac­tices, while sup­port­ing the tran­si­tion to­wards a green­er fu­ture.”


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