Telecom giant Digicel has relaunched a money transfer system in Haiti designed to let people get easier access to cash through their cellphones. Digicel said Tuesday...
Jamaica will finally introduce mobile number portability on 22 June, approximately three weeks later than scheduled, after the government accepted a request to temporarily postpone the...
The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad & Tobago (TATT) has requested Digicel to restrain from blocking customers from using third party Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) applications...
Digicel has renewed its mobile license in Jamaica. The operator has secured a 15-year licence for provision of mobile services on the local market. The new...
The Digicel Group says it has reached an agreement with the Guadeloupe-based Loret Group and with Caribbean Fiber Holdings to acquire a submarine cable network across...
Cellular phone roaming charges in the Caribbean are soon to be a thing of the past. Digicel, a major telecommunications carrier is in the process of...
Digicel, sponsor of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL T20), has launched a marketing campaign in support of the T20 cricket tournament. The campaign went live with...
Digicel is looking to launch its own low cost android smartphone in the coming weeks. In a release, the telecommunication company revealed that the new smartphone...
The project once completed is hoped to turn Jamaica into the ICT hub of the Caribbean. (JIS) – Jamaica is in the process of rolling out...
Mobile telecommunications providers Digicel and Landline Internent Mobile Entertainment (LIME) have today announced that they will be carrying the newly launched BlackBerry Z10 smartphone powered by...
(Telecompaper) – Digicel Jamaica will be sponsoring a new Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) Special Award for Excellence in Technology reporting with a focus on ICT....
Digicel, which acquired Haiti’s Voila network earlier this year, will complete the integration of the network by October 15, the company announced. Digicel also announced that...
(Jamaica Gleaner) – FLOW is the latest telecommunications provider to announce a reduction in telephone rates resulting from the recent decision by the Office of Utilities...
(Jamaica Observer) – Telecommunications company Digicel Jamaica said today it was “disappointed” with the ruling by the Supreme Court to refuse the company’s application seeking leave...
The agreement that allowed Digicel to increase its stronghold in Jamaica could be undermined if the Jamaica Fair Trading Commission (FTC) determines that the transaction could...
The parliament of Jamaica yesterday sanctioned amendments to the 11-year-old Telecoms Act, signalling the end to any possibility of monopoly in the telecoms market and paving...
(PRNewswire) – Digicel Group, the best value mobile operator in the Caribbean, Central America and Pacific, has acquired Haitian mobile operator, Voila, from its parent company,...
Telecommunications provider Digicel said it will entirely fund a US$16 million project to run a 200 kilometre-long undersea, fiber-optic cable linking Haiti to the rest of...
(Jamaica Observer) – Telecommunications provider Landline Internet Mobile and Entertainment (LIME) on Friday said the industry is “beginning to see some results” from the company’s fight...
Scores of Jamaicans will be left holding expensive cellular phones fit only for the scrap dump this morning after Digicel shuts down the Claro network at...
Despite the fact that the Caribbean has small markets with limited potential for growth, telecommunications is set to continue being one of the region’s major growth...
(Jamaica Observer) – Jamaica’s Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell, after spending the last three weeks in dialogue with the country’s two major...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Limited plans to raise J$ 21 billion (US$250 million) from a private placement of an eight-year bond. The proceeds will fund potential acquisitions,...
Jamaica’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit with the High Court seeking to derail the planned merger of wireless operators Claro Jamaica, a subsidiary...
Digicel Group Limited has announced the completion of its acquisition of América Móvil’s (Claro’s parent company), business in Jamaica and the sale of its business in...
The Bermuda Supreme Court, late last week, ordered Jamaica based telecommunications company, Digicel to cease providing Bermudeans access to its internet-based long-distance service. This is as...
The battle between state-owned I-Mobile, formerly Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA PCS), and Digicel is heating up, less than two months after the re-launch and re-branding...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding is to make a statement on the matter shortly.
Digicel Guyana said that it welcomes the Government’s plans to imminently bring an end to what it called the outdated monopoly regime for international calls in...
Jamaican authorities will say within the next two weeks whether the takeover of Claro by Digicel will get the green light.
THE US Department of State yesterday announced the creation of the Caribbean IdEA Marketplace (CIM), partnering with Scotiabank, the bank with the largest commercial footprint in...
