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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

Cable Companies and Cable Stations

Cable Companies

African Direct Telegraph Company

All America Cables

Anglo American

Australia
British Insulated Callenders (Submarine) Cables Ltd
British Submarine Cable Manufacturers

British Telegraph Companies

Cable & Wireless
Cable Services - a review of a hundred years of cable rates and options
Canadian Government
Central & South American Telegraph Company

Commercial Cable Company

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company

La Compagnie Française des Câbles Télégraphiques
Danish PTT (Tele Danmark)
Dutch East Indies Government
Direct United States Cable Company
Electric Telegraph Company of Ireland
Enderby's Wharf
French Cable Companies
German Cable Companies
Great Northern
India
The India-rubber, Gutta-percha, and Telegraph Works Company, Limited (Silvertown)
Italcable
Johnson and Phillips - cable gear suppliers
New Zealand
Richard Johnson & Nephew - cable wire suppliers since 1851
Siemens Brothers
Simplex Wire & Cable Company
The Submarine Telegraph Company
US Armed Forces Cables
USSR
US Underseas Cable Corporation
Western Union
West Highland Telegraph
Cable Stations
Abermawr, Wales
Ascension Island
Bamfield, Vancouver, Canada
Barranco, Peru - Central & South American Telegraph Company
Canso, Nova Scotia - Commercial Cable Company,
Commercial Cable Company, other offices
Direction Island
Orleans, Massachusetts - French Cable Station,
Porthcurno
Telegraph Island
Valentia

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Last revised: 9 December, 2007

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