A Seamless Caribbean Network?

Thursday, April 20th, 2006 @ 07:58 UTC

by Alice Backer

Countries:
Guyana, Suriname, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico (U.S.), St.Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Isl., Bonaire, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, St. Barthélémy, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, Curaçao, US Virgin Islands, French Guiana
Topics:
Business, Internet & Telecoms, Technology

InternetRapide.com, a blog dedicated to telecommunications in the Caribbean says (FR) Digicel, a cell phone company owned by Irishman Denis O'Brien that covers 60% of the Jamaican market, celebrates its fifth anniversary this week. The company has expanded to 14 other Caribbean countries since its inception in 2001 and plans to purchase the Caribbean arm of Bouygues Telecom, a French company, says the blog. Digicel announced plans to tackle wireless internet next.

1 comment

  • Pingback: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Caribbean: Billionaires Investing in Local Telecoms

    [...] Last week Irish billionaire Dennis O’Brien announced his company Digicel was purchasing the Caribbean arm of Bouygues Telecom and this week Mexican billionnaire Carlos Slim announces he is purchasing three Caribbean and Latin-American subsidiaries of Verizon, an American telecom, writes (FR) InternetRapide.com. The Verizon subsidiaries to be purchased by Slim’s Telmex and America Movil are located in the DR, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. [...]

    # 2006-04-22 at 14:54 pm

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