Trans-Caribbean Cable Company

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Trans-Caribbean Cable Company ("TCCC") is the management organization for planning, building, operating, and maintaining the Trans-Caribbean Cable Network ("TCCN"). The project was conceived to service the ever-growing Internet, data and voice traffic demands of the Caribbean. TCCN will offer high-speed undersea fiber-optic cable connectivity from many locations in the Caribbean to Miami, Florida through a combination of segment construction and existing segment upgrades. TCCC envisions that TCCN will become the Caribbean region's common, carrier-neutral platform that will provide the capacity needed to stimulate the growth of the Internet and other telecom services in the region. (Please click on the "Network Plan” navigation button for the planned regional coverage of the network.)

Technical design principles built into TCCN will include a fully protected network configuration with physical cable-on-cable restoration where feasible and interface capabilities at the most popular SDH (STM4, STM1, DS3, & E1) and/or Ethernet (10Mb, 100Mb, 1GigE, 10GigE) levels if possible. TCCN will utilize dark fiber or wavelengths on existing cables to complete links wherever feasible commercially and technically. In cases where such connectivity is not available under satisfactory conditions, new segments will be constructed under contract in order to complete the network.

Because of the competitive limitations (exclusivity) of the traditional consortium (club) model and the obvious failure of the capacity resell (private) model in undersea cable development, TCCC is using a new project development model that combines the best attributes of the traditional cable consortium together with the best characteristics of the private cable model. We call this unique model the Virtual Consortium™ Model ("VCM"). TCCC believes that the VCM is the logical evolutionary model for future undersea cable project planning, implementation and operations. (Please click on the “Benefits” navigation button for some of the highlights of the Virtual Consortium™ Model.)

On June 17, 2004 (during a project meeting in Curacao), TCCC signed the TCCN Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 14 carriers marking the official formation of the TCCN consortium with all members having the common objective to conduct a joint feasibility study to determine the best solution(s) for future undersea connectivity requirements throughout the Caribbean. Participation in the MOU has since grown to more than 60 parties, including:

ACCESS HAITI, ALPHA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, ARUBA WIRELESS, AT&T WIRELESS (now CINGULAR), AVOXI, BATELCO (BTC), C&W, CANTV, CENTENNIAL, CENTENNIAL DOMINICANA, CODETEL INTERNATIONAL, COLOMBIA TELECOM, COMCEL, COMTEK, CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, COPIA WIRELESS, COSTA VISION, CURACAO CABLE TELEVISION, DATASYS, DIGICEL, ETB, FOCUS DATA, FONDATION INTERMONDE, FUSION, FUSION JAMAICA, GOTEL, GSI (GRUPO SABER), HAICOM, HAINET, HAITEL, HAITI DATA NETWORKS, ICE, INTERNEXA, ISLAND FIBRE, ITT LINK, JNAP, MOBITEL, MULTILINK, ODJ (OCEANIC DIGITAL JAMAICA), ORANGE DOMINICANA, ORBITEL, RAJNET, RELIANT, SATEL (SABA TELEPHONE), SCARLET, SETAR, SMITCOMS, SPRINT, STARNET, TELBO, TELE-CONNEXIONS, TELECO D'HAITI, TELECOM ITALIA, TELEFONICA, TELESUR, TELMEX, THIRD WAVE, TIMELESS TELECOM, TRICOM SA, TRICOM USA, ULTRACOM, UTS, UWT (UNIFIED WORLDWIDE TRANSPORT), VERIZON DOMINICANA, and VERIZON ITJ

Naturally, all potential capacity subscribers are welcome to join the TCCN project, including the smallest local ISPs, the incumbent carriers, and the world-class carriers that operate globally. In fact, the TCCN consortium has agreed a process whereby additional parties may continue to join the consortium before the signature of the TCCN Construction & Maintenance Agreement ("C&MA"). The TCCN consortium is planning to sign the C&MA during the first half of 2007. Until such time, the consortium is expected to continue to grow and to inevitably include every service provider that operates or plans to operate in the Caribbean region in the long term. (If your organization is interested in learning more about the project, then please click on the “Contact Us” navigation button.)

The TCCC executive management team is comprised of experienced veterans of the undersea cable industry with direct planning, implementation, and/or operations experience in many undersea networks around the world, including: Antillas-1, Americas-II, APCN, APCN2, ARCOS-1, Bahamas-II, China-US, CIOS/TEFKROS, Columbus-2, Japan-US, MAYA-1, PAN AM, SEA-ME-WE-2, Taino-Carib, TAT-10, TAT-11, TAT-12/13, TAT-14, TCS-1, Unisur, and more. As a result, each capacity subscriber will have the comfort of knowing that every part of TCCN will be designed, installed, operated and/or maintained properly in accordance with all applicable industry standards, ITU standards, and local regulatory standards. (Please click on the “About Us” navigation button for more details on our investors and our executive management team.)

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