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A consortium of Alcatel, AT&T Submarine Systems Inc., Kokusai Denshin Denwa Submarine Cable Systems

March 1, 1997

A consortium of Alcatel, AT&T Submarine Systems Inc., Kokusai Denshin Denwa Submarine Cable Systems Inc., and Pirelli has been awarded a contract valued at US$737 million to supply a 21,000-km network and associated electronics that will link Singapore to Germany as part of the sea-me-we 3 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe) network. Telstra, in Australia, is linking to the system via a 5000-km cable from Perth to Jakarta and Singapore.

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