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

1987 India - UAE Cable

Manufactured by Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd. for VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.), this 1380 nm cable was laid from Fujairah, UAE to Mumbai (Bombay), India. MV Galaxa laid the Bombay shore end, while the main run was laid by CS Cable Venture.

Laying commenced on 10 February 1987 and the cable was inaugurated on 10 November of that year. The photograph below shows Mr. Santosh Mohan Dev, Minister of State for Communications, at the inauguration ceremony in Bombay.

Images from The Story of India's Overseas Communications by C.N.N. Nair (1988)

Research Material Needed

The Atlantic Cable website is non-commercial, and its mission is to make available on line as much information as possible.

You can help - if you have cable material, old or new, please contact me. Cable samples, instruments, documents, brochures, souvenir books, photographs, family stories, all are valuable to researchers and historians.

If you have any cable-related items that you could photograph, copy, scan, loan, or sell, please email me: billb@ftldesign.com