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🇸🇷 Paramaribo

Telesur Urban Fiber Optic Ring Expansion

Telesur has built out Paramaribo's fiber network since 2013, completing the National Broadband Project in 2019, and aims to finish full city coverage by March 2026, backed by new subsea capacity from Orange plus a 2026 diversification deal joining EllaLink's Caribbean Gateway cable system.

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📡 Data & IoTConnectivity & 5G
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: LoRaWAN

Sources

↗ Telesur (operator)Official site of Suriname's state telecom operator running the Paramaribo fibre build.
↗ TS2 Tech (press)Confirms Telesur began fibre rollout in Paramaribo in 2013 and completed the National Broadband Project by 2019.
↗ OilNOW (press)Nov 2025: Telesur CEO targets full Paramaribo fibre coverage by March 2026; confirms Orange — not Digicel's Deep Blue One — as Telesur's subsea capacity partner.
↗ Manila Times / GlobeNewswire (press)May 2026: Telesur joins the EllaLink Caribbean Gateway subsea cable system for route diversification.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Telesur Urban Fiber Optic Ring Expansion” — Paramaribo, Suriname. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/paramaribo-fiber-backbone/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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