In 1900-1901 it laid a fourth transatlantic cable between Nova Scotia and Ireland, via the Azores Islands; also another cable between Nova Scotia and New York, and one between Ireland and England.

In 1902-3 the Commercial Pacific Cables were laid between San Francisco, Honolulu, Midway Islands, Ladrone Islands, The Philippines, and in 1906 extensions were made to China and Japan, comprising altogether 10,010 miles.

In 1905 a fifth transatlantic cable was laid by the Commercial Cable Company between Nova Scotia and Ireland.

In 1907 the Commercial Cable Company of Cuba laid a cable between New York and Havana, Cuba, thereby introducing competition, which, prior to that time, was impossible on account of a monopoly held by another company.

In August, 1909, the Company diverted one of its transatlantic cables from a point in the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Flemish Cap, into St. John's, Newfoundland, and laid a new cable from St. John's direct to New York City.

More recently the Company made a similar change in the route of one of its other transatlantic cables, and a second cable from St. John'3 to New York will be completed during the coming year. These changes result in increased speed of transmission besides removing the cables from locations in the Atlantic where they were constantly subject to injury by anchors of fishing vessels.

The Commercial Cable Company's Atlantic system now totals 18,337 miles, and is more extensive than that of any other Atlantic Cable Company.

Its lines of communication extend in one continuous stretch from Europe to China, two-thirds around the world.
When the Commercial Cable Company commenced business in 1884 the Atlantic Cable rate was 50 cents per word. The Commercial Cable Company immediately reduced the rate to 40 cents per word and later to 25 cents per word. Its rapid, accurate and reliable service gained for it a large measure of public patronage. In 1886 all the other Atlantic Companies associated themselves in an effort to crush our competition by commencing a war of rates which after considerable loss of money by both sides resulted in the Commercial Cable Company maintaining its free and independent position and in the retention of the 25 cent rate which it had established.

The Commercial has always stood for progress, expansion and improvement of facilities.

Valuable improvements have been made and new inventions adopted on its system to increase speed, reduce delay, and minimize error in transmission, and it now ranks as first amongst the Atlantic Cable Companies for speed, accuracy and reliability.