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Published: 22 April 2021 Pond Island:--- Telecommunications services on St. Maarten were hit for the second day in a row Thursday – this time due to a damaged SCCS undersea cable in St. Eustatius. The outage occurred about 11:02 am Thursday and was quickly traced to a manhole in St. Eustatius, where work on repairing the damaged cable quickly got underway. Technicians and engineers responsible for the undersea fiber cable were able to transfer the connection to an alternative route, while the damaged cable was spliced and reconnected. Technicians and engineers say the damage is...

Published: 14 April 2021 POND ISLAND:--- TelEm Group and the Lion’s Club of St. Maarten have successfully joined in a massive environmental effort to collect hundreds of damaged and broken computers, printers, and other electronic equipment so that they can be shipped abroad for recycling. Many desktop computers, laptops, cable tv set-top boxes, and other telecommunication equipment were sorted and neatly packed into a 40-foot container that will now be bound for a recycling plant in the USA. Some of the units will be fixed and put back into circulation, while others will be str...

Minister Ludmila de Weever delivers on securing outstanding concessions for TelEm Close Minister Ludmila de Weever delivers on securing outstanding concessions for TelEm Page Image Page Content Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications, Ludmila de Weever, is very pleased that the Governor has signed off the national ministerial decrees thereby finalizing the outstanding concessions for the Sint Maarten TelEm Group of Companies. On January 29, 2021, His Excellency the Governor and the Minister signed off on the aforementioned decrees to grant concessions t...

Published: 26 February 2021 PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications, Ludmila de Weever, is very pleased that the Governor has signed off the national ministerial decrees thereby finalizing the outstanding concessions for the Sint Maarten TelEm Group of Companies. On January 29, 2021, His Excellency the Governor and the Minister signed off on the aforementioned decrees to grant concessions to Sint Maarten Telephone Company N.V. (TelEm N.V.) and St. Maarten International Telecommunication Services N.V. (SMITCOMS N.V.). “I am ver...

Published: 04 February 2021 PHILIPSBURG:--- The House of Parliament will sit in a Central Committee meeting on February 5, 2021. The Central Committee meeting which was adjourned on November 6, 2020, will be reconvened on Friday at 14.00 hrs. The Minister of General Affairs will be in attendance. The agenda point is: The (financial) status of the Telem Group of Companies (IS/1135/2019-2020 dated August 18, 2020) This meeting was requested by MP S.A. Wescot-Williams, MP M.D. Gumbs, MP C.A. Buncamper and MP G.S. Heyliger-Marten Due to measures taken to mitigate the coronavirus (COVI...