As part of our occasional blogs on the people who are building Telecom26, we have previously written about Cristian Apostol, one of our mobile core network engineers and Pietro Cotino, Telecom26’s International Roaming Manager and Tanja Bütler, our essential officer manager.

In a previous blog we discussed the launch of Talk, Text & Travel, our new global connectivity service that provides data, voice and SMS to Business Travellers.

Earlier this week we announced our new partnership with Faroese Telecom which provides global and maritime connectivity to fishermen – and local connectivity in the Faroe Islands for Telecom26’s customers.

The global and maritime connectivity teams at Telecom26 are delighted to announce a new  partnership with Faroese Telecom which will improve connectivity for Telecom26 customers in the Faroe Islands – and the fishermen who work the surrounding seas.

At last month’s Mobile World Congress we showcased Talk, Text & Travel, our new full mobile service for SMS, voice and data.  The USP for this service – and one of the reasons our phones and inboxes are so busy – is that people don’t have to replace their existing subscriptions to use Talk, Text & Travel.

The welfare of crews on-board commercial vessels is a subject that our maritime connectivity team has discussed before especially during COVID.  This recent piece in The Financial Times The plight of ship crews stranded at sea says that “When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, more than 300,000 commercial seafarers were left stranded on their ships well past the expiry of their contracts, because virus control measures and travel restrictions prevented crews from being rotated. Part of the problem then was the length of time it took many countries to classify them as “key workers” in spite of the fact that their work was, quite clearly, key”.