THE SEYCHELLES HAS been part of the world telecommunications network since the year 1893 when a telegraph cable linking Zanzibar, the Seychelles and Mauritius was laid.
In 1915 Marconi built a long-range radio station for the British Admiralty on the Seychelles. The islands were further linked to the Eastern Telegraph Company’s international telegraph network in 1922 with the laying of a cable from Aden to Colombo via the Seychelles. This cable provided an important link from East Africa to Singapore and the Far East.
1893 contract document. The company which laid the Seychelles cable was the Eastern & South Africa Telegraph Company, formed in 1879 by John Pender, who had already established telegraph companies linking Britain with India, the Far East and Australia.
Postcards of the Eastern Telegraph Company, circa 1900
