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1998: International Year of the Ocean

23 Nov 98  North American Gateway Buys US$200 Million in Project OXYGEN™ Capacity 23 Nov 98 

24 Aug 98 PSINet Acquires Links between Mainland U.S. and Japan 24 Aug 98

3 Aug 98 Japan-U.S. cable owners sign construction agreement 3 Aug 98

27 February 98 TYCO SUBMARINE SYSTEMS LTD. - LEAD SUPPLIER IN US$310 MILLION AMERICAS II

10 February 98 BT, Cable & Wireless Shares Rise On Merger Rumours

18 December 97 CENTURY TO SELL SUBMARINE CABLE OPERATIONS OF PACIFIC TELECOM, INC.

9 December 97 World's Longest Cable Starts Short Of Customers

28 November 97 World's Biggest Submarine Cable Gets Green Light

8 August 97 U.K. Regulator Eyes Transatlantic Cable Consortia

August 97 Cable & Wireless Gains Control of Optus

11 April 97 Tyco International to purchase AT&T's Submarine Systems

February 97 Heritage Lottery Fund Awards £500,000 to Historic Submarine Cable Museum in West Cornwall

12 December 96 The Entire TPC-5CN to Begin Service

16 October 96 AT&T offers submarine systems unit for sale  

August 96 Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD), UK Launches web-site

June 96 Cable & Wireless Applies to Land Transatlantic Cable in USA

9 April 96 AT&T awarded $20 million contract for Bahamas-Florida undersea system

Feb 96 Globesystem plans to link info highway across the Atlantic

15 January 96 Innovations in long-haul cables herald new era of pricing 

20 Dec 1995 AT&T and Alcatel to build Africa ONE fibre cable system

22 May 1995 AT&T and KDD to develop next-generation submarine fibre cable.