About Cable & Wireless (Diego Garcia) Limited

Cable & Wireless (C&W) for over 130 years has been providing countries throughout the world with their national and international telecommunication networks. C&W Diego Garcia is licenced by the British Government to provide international public telecommunications services to and from the island of Diego Garcia.

 

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. 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. Diego Garcia has approx. 3,000 inhabitants, mainly UK and US military personnel and civilians, and Filipino and Mauritian civilians.

 

C&W Diego Garcia offers GSM, fixed line international telephone, 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. C&W Diego Garcia 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.