m updating its Channel Island telecoms network.
The project, announced last week by executive deputy chairman Lord George Robertson, involves laying two new cable links connecting Guernsey to France and to the UK.
Work on Project Hugo, which stands for High-capacity Undersea Guernsey Optical fibre, is expected to start in March and finish in the autumn of 2006.
But the company’s activities in Jersey are currently being stymied because the interconnect equipment necessary to activate its first voice service in the Island has not yet been made available by Jersey Telecom.
Last week Cable & Wireless announced the completion of the installation of their next-generation soft switch, but they hadn’t reckoned on a further delay.
