IN 1873 JOHN Pender amalgamated three telegraph companies, the British Indian Extension, The China Submarine and the British Australian, to form the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company (E.E.A. & C.). It was this company, combined with the Eastern, that formed the core of the telegraph empire established by John Pender. The first major project undertaken was the laying of a cable from Australia to New Zealand in 1876. Many local cable links followed, vastly improving the telegraph communications of the South East Asia area.
The company remained in existence until 1974 when a joint company called Eastern Telecommunications Philippine Inc. was formed by Cable & Wireless and Philippine interests. This took over the assets of the E.E.A.& C.
