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Company Overview
SURE South Atlantic & Diego Garcia (S&D) are wholly owned subsidiaries of Batelco Group, acquired in 2013. The companies are telecommunications providers serving customers in the British Overseas Territories of the islands of Ascension, Falklands, Saint Helena and Diego Garcia. In each of these locations, operating under an exclusive license Sure is a full feature network operator delivering voice, broadband and data services.
The company, previously owned by Cable & Wireless, has been operating on Diego Garcia since 1982 under a licence issued by the British Government to provide international public telecommunications services on the island of Diego Garcia.
Currently only 2G GSM services are provided over the 900 MHz band, with a 2.75G GPRS/EDGE data service.