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Cisco, Digicel sketch digital vision for Caribbean countries with new agreement Cisco and Digicel announced they have signed a Caribbean Countries Digitalization Frame Agreement, detailing each company’s plans for advancing …

A new carrier was announced in Brazil last week. On Telecom will begin its operations backed by billionaire financier George Soros. The new competitor, which is targeting a niche in …

Digicel Group has chosen eVolution Networks to provide a smart energy solution (SES) across its network in Jamaica. Digicel aims to slash energy consumption on the cellular tower (base station) …

Looking to increase operators’ network capacity, Venezuelan telecom regulator Conatel has assigned additional spectrum to the state-run Movilnet, to Telefónica subsidiary Movistar and to the domestically-owned Digicel in the 1.8 …

After acquiring Haiti’s Voilà last April, Digicel released it plans to complete the integration of the network by Oct. 15, which will include the elimination of the Voilà brand.  Be …

Looking to offer broadband Internet on cellular mobile devices, Digicel tapped Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) to deploy an Evolved HSPA network in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to …

While m-banking has not taken off in Brazil and other Latin American countries yet, in Haiti, Digicel’s mobile money service, named TchoTcho Mobile, and Voila’s T-Cash have reached 5 million …

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Digicel Group announced it has acquired Haitian mobile operator Voilà from U.S.-based Trilogy International Partners for an undisclosed sum. The transaction closed last Friday. At least for the near term …

Haiti is set to receive a major boost with the delivery of US $16 million worth of undersea cable (124.28 miles) which will link the nation to 21 other countries …

Amid a double-digit increase in global revenue during its fiscal first half, Digicel Group has completed its acquisition of Claro, América Móvil’s business in Jamaica, and the sale of its business in Honduras to América Móvil.

As a mobile operator across 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific, Digicel Group Limited was facing a growth that its in-house CRM(customer relationship management) system could …

Mobile operator Claro, which is part of the América Móvel group, has launched HSPA+ services in Panama. The network is currently available in Panama Metro, Colón and along the Alberto …

When the Vietnamese state owned telco Viettel officially became the majority owner of Haitian national telecommunication company TELECO, it likely had no idea what kind of trouble it was in for.

Originally established after Haiti’s devastating earthquake last year as a means to give the youth of the country a voice in the nation’s reconstruction, Mwen Konté was also designed to get them involved in building an agenda for their own future.

As festivities unfolded in Haiti yesterday upon the announcement of election results, some complained of an apparant deliberate blocking and downgrading of cellular signal.

We’d met and interviewed Keith Chibafa of World Vision a couple of days earlier and were eager to see Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS) at work in the field.

I seem to have fallen into the Haitian time warp, where everything seems to have gone by so fast at such a slow pace. Because everything takes time here.

There’s a lizard napping peacefully on top of my mosquito net as I type. He looks rested – almost as rested as I did this morning after a blissful seven hours of sleep.

The Jamaica Observer | March 20, 2011 LIME Jamaica has said that given the significance of the Digicel/Claro merger to the Jamaican telecommunications industry, the Government, the Office of Utilities …

Go Jamaica | March 22, 2011 Telecommunications giant Digicel has announced it is currently working on its plans to ‘seamlessly’ integrate the Claro Jamaica business, including the 3G service, into …