Tax-news.com is grateful to Mr Guido H Jansen of PricewaterhouseCoopers for providing information for this story: guido.h.jansen@an.pwcglobal.com
Last October, tax-news.com
reported that the underwater optic glass-fibre cable 'Americas
II', running from North America via the Caribbean to South America
had become operational for Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.
Now, another cable with vastly more capacity is making its landfall
in Curacao. Last week the cable-laying ship Manta reached Curacao
during its deployment of the optic glass-fibre cable 'Arcos'.
Arcos is the highest-capacity submarine cable yet laid, and is
the first to be 'self-healing' in the event of physical damage.
Arcos has a capacity of 960 gigabits in comparison to the 25 gigabit capacity of Americas II. The cable will connect Curacao directly with several countries in South America, the Caribbean and Miami. The shareholders of Arcos have decided to place their 'Network Operation Center' (NOC) on Curacao and will place it under the control of United Telecom Services (UTS), the local telecom holding company in Curacao.
The Arcos cable's other NOC is in Miami. UTS is negotiating with Siemens to use Curacao as their home port for the maintenance-services of Arcos. Siemens has a contract with Arcos for the repair and maintenance of the cable worldwide.
According to UTS, the 'Arcos' will result in more bandwidth for Curacao, one of the most important requirements for a successful development of e-commerce in the Netherlands Antilles.
After a slow start, the Netherlands Antilles now seem be doing everything right to catch up with market leaders Bermuda and Ireland in the e-commerce race. There is a vacancy, so to speak, for a leader in the Caribbean and South American offshore e-commerce sector, and the Antilles may be going to fill it.
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