Wall Street Journal | February 11, 2011 | Kejal Vyas
CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela's state-run telecommunications operator, Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, or Cantv, said Friday it has finished connecting a fiber-optic cable that links the southern part of the country to northern Brazil.
Venezuelan officials,...
BBC | February 9, 2011
Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo.
The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world.
The new connection...
AOL News | January 24, 2011 | Lauren Frayer
One of the world's most unplugged countries is about to get high-speed Internet, courtesy of an old friend.
A specialized ship began laying fiber-optic cable under the Caribbean Sea from Venezuela toward Cuba this past weekend, launching...
Bloomberg | January 21, 2011 | Jason Clenfield and Maki Shiraki
NEC Corp., Japan’s largest maker of phone-network equipment, won an order valued at about 30 billion yen ($362 million) from a group led by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. to supply undersea cables, two...
Bloomberg | January 7, 2011 | Eduardo Thomson
Telefonica Chile SA, Chile’s largest telephone company, plans to invest $700 million this year, Diario Financiero said.
The company plans to invest a significant portion of that amount in broadband and fiber optic assets, the Santiago-based newspaper said,...
Not long after the truce between India’s famous Ambani brothers – who own Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Reliance Industries Limited respectively - the younger brother, Anil Ambani, head of RCOM, has sold off his firm’s tower business to GTL Infrastructure for $11 billion. This is the first time a non-telco player has gained a foothold in the highly lucrative Indian telecom infrastructure business.
