Jamaica Observer | February 16, 2011 | Alesia Edwards?
OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Telecommunication between Jamaica, Venezuela and Cuba is soon to be strengthened due to the arrival of a new undersea fibre optic cable as part of an agreement between LIME’s parent company Cable & Wireless Communications and Telecommunicaciones Gran Caribe (TGC).
Some 240 kilometres of the cable, which runs from Cuba to Jamaica, arrived in this north coast resort town on Monday, and when installation is completed about July it is expected to provide direct connectivity for voice and data traffic between the three countries.
Cable & Wireless Communications signed the contract with TGC, a joint venture between Cuba’s Transbit SA and Telecom Venezuela late last year for LIME to become TGC’s strategic landing partner in Jamaica.
Chairman of LIME Chris Dehring described the arrival of the cable and the partnership between the three countries as a historic event and said his company is pleased to have entered into the agreement with TGC.
“We are extremely pleased to be the strategic landing partner of TGC and (as) Jamaicans we are also very pleased to be at the centre of a relationship between Cuba, Jamaica and Venezuela, and I think that also has some very significant historic bond,” Dehring said at the ceremony to mark the arrival of the cable at Golden Sands Beach in Ocho Rios.
