Our Spanish operation, Cables de Comunicaciones (CDCZ) in Zaragoza, north-east Spain was awarded a contract from Telefónica, Spain’s leading telecom operator, for the supply of optical fibre cables for its networks. Telefónica has businesses in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and by market capitalisation is rated among the five biggest telecom operators in the world.
Manuel Blasco (Commercial Director) of CDCZ said an investment of more than US$ 2-million (about R15-million) had been made in new machinery to produce optical fibre cables. Installation of the machinery was completed within six months and the agreement with Telefónica was concluded at the same time. A contract for the first supply of cable has been signed with Telefónica and CDCZ expects to gain an initial market share of up to 20%.
CDCZ was able to use some of its existing metallic cable manufacturing machinery to produce sheathing lines as part of the optical fibre manufacturing process. The new optic fibre production line is capable of manufacturing cables in a wide range of sizes from drop cables containing one or two fibres to very large cables with 256 fibres.
Blasco added that CDCZ was working in co-operation with well-established major international fibre suppliers, including Fujikura, Furukawa and Corning, among others.
Telefónica’s core activities are fixed and mobile telephony and its broadband business is the key growth driver underpinning both. It operates in 25 countries and its customer base exceeds 268.6 million globally.
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