Tag: Maya-1 Cable

Redacted report reveals little to justify subsea cable

Redacted report reveals little to justify subsea cable

| 14/03/2024 | 62 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has released a heavily redacted outline business case, compiled by consultants Grant Thornton, on the government’s plans for a new telecommunications submarine cable. Key details have all been omitted, such as costs (estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars), its length and where it will be linked […]

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Ministry dodges questions on sub-sea cable contracts

Ministry dodges questions on sub-sea cable contracts

| 06/12/2023 | 51 Comments

(CNS): The Ministry of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure (PAHI) has told CNS that answers to questions we asked about the modernisation of the submarine communications cable, a relevant report and the proposed spending for the project will all require a freedom of information request. On 22 November, the ministry issued a vague press release […]

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Telecoms company offers to pay for new subsea cable

Telecoms company offers to pay for new subsea cable

| 28/06/2022 | 30 Comments

(CNS): International telecommunications company Seaborn Networks has made an unsolicited application to the Utility Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg) to pay for and connect a new undersea communications fibre-optic cable. The proposal is separate from the Cayman Islands Government’s plans to seek a contractor to lay a third subsea cable, which it was expecting to […]

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CI$250k contract awarded for sub-sea cable study

CI$250k contract awarded for sub-sea cable study

| 02/05/2022 | 34 Comments

(CNS): Grant Thornton Specialist Services (Cayman) Limited has won the CI$250,000 contract to conduct a formal feasibility study into the modernisation of the Cayman Islands’ submarine cable infrastructure. The study will form the outline business case that will inform the government about whether or not to invest in a third communication cable. The proposal is […]

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Third undersea cable pointless, says C&W

Third undersea cable pointless, says C&W

| 31/08/2020 | 79 Comments

(CNS): Cable & Wireless, part of the consortium of members that use and operate the existing undersea telecommunications cables that keep the Cayman Islands connected to the rest of the world, has said that plans by government to sink a third undersea cable are unnecessary. Even if there was a five-fold increase in communication traffic […]

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