In the July 2025 issue of Sea Technology, Managing Partner Gavin Tully and Director of Marine Services Bob Munoz authored the article “Subsea Cable Introduced Broadband to the Tiny Maine Island.” Excerpt below:
“Connecting communities is what we’re all about,” said David Coughlan, CEO of SubCom. “And as a New England company, it’s a special opportunity to take part in connecting a place we know and love so well.”
Isle au Haut, a small Island off the coast of Maine, is home to approximately 75 year-round residents and around 250 in the summer. It’s small, it’s tight-knit, it’s quaint—in fact, around half of the island’s 100-sq. mi. land mass is part of Acadia National Park. It has a one-room schoolhouse (with currently seven students) and is only accessible from the U.S. mainland via a 45-min. ferry ride.
Until recently, it also completely lacked access to broadband internet. It took a village, and more, to get connected.
Learn more about this fascinating story here.
Isle au Haut installed its first subsea telecommunications in November 2024. The 10-km submarine cable now connects Isle au Haut to Stonington on Deer Isle, which has terrestrial connections to the U.S. mainland. (Credit: Donna Hopkins, Isle au Haut Broadband Committee).