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| Cable & Wireless (C&W)
for over 130 years has been providing countries throughout the world with their
national and international telecomms networks. |
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| Today, C&W is licenced by the British Government to
provide international public telecommunications services to the island of Diego Garcia. |
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| Our services include International Telephone and Public
Internet, TV Re-Broadcast and Paging services. We also offer intra-island links to
maritime customers, private corporate networks and international private leased services
for both military and business customers. |
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| C&W continues to invest in the network infrastructure on
Diego Garcia and in our international satellite links, enabling us to offer robust, high
quality and affordable communications services for both residential and business customers
on the island. |
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| Cable & Wireless International HQ Ltd. is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Cable & Wireless PLC, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange. |
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| The British Indian Ocean Territory
(BIOT) lies about 1770 km east of the Seychelles. The
islands have a land area of only 60 sq km and 698 km of coastline. Diego Garcia, the
largest and most southerly island, is 44 sq km. The climate is hot, humid and moderated by
trade winds. The terrain is flat and low and most areas do not exceed two metres above sea
level. |
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| The Chagos islands were first
discovered, uninhabited, in the 16th century. The French assumed sovereignty in the late
18th century and began to exploit them for copra, originally employing slave labour. Under
the treaty of Paris in 1814, France ceded to Britain Mauritius and its dependencies, which
comprised Seychelles and the Chagos Archipelago. The Chagos islands were detached to
become part of the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. |
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| Diego Garcia has approx. 3,000 inhabitants, mainly UK and US military personnel and
civilians, and Filipino and Mauritian civilians. |
