The landing of St Helena’s branch of the Equiano cable on 26 August 2021 marked the first shore cable-landing in the entire Equiano project. St Helena’s cable branch (linking the Island to the main trunk of the Equiano cable) is approximately 1,154km long; The main cable trunk links north to Portugal and to the South it […]| St Helena Government
On 28 November 2022 it was announced that St Helena Government (SHG) signed a contract with Maestro St Helena Ltd (Maestro) (a company registered in St Helena) to design and build a fibre network across the Island. Following this, a number of essential preliminary matters have been under discussion and finalisation ahead of substantive project […]| St Helena Government
Now that the Equiano subsea cable is live, there is opportunity for the existing telecoms network to plug into the cable so that the Island community is able to benefit immediately from this investment. Whilst the aspiration to access the cable via a fibre network remains, there will be some considerable time before this network […]| St Helena Government