Salvaging fibre-optic cable would be costly exercise, experts say

Alexei Ramotar

Salvaging the multi-billion dollar fibre-optic cable project will be costly and will require government to be frank about key attributes of the project which may in turn expose poor decision-making.

“To salvage this project the Guyana government will have to be honest with analysts and the technical remedial team …I doubt they would want to expose the magnitude of their failures and that itself will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions more,” one fibre optic specialist told Stabroek News.

The project to lay a fibre-optic cable from Brazil to