COMTek to expand USVI broadband services to St Croix
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
ST THOMAS, USVI: Communications Technology,
Inc. (COMTek), a high-speed broadband service provider in the US Virgin
Islands, on Tuesday announced plans to expand broadband services to St Croix
by the end of July 2005.
As its first foray into St Croix, COMTek
acted as the official broadband provider to the Association of Caribbean
Commissioners of Police (ACCP) Annual Conference, which was held in St. Croix
from May 18-24, 2005. COMTek first will
establish connectivity in Christianisted and then roll out its broadband
services in phases to the rest of the island.
At the ACCP meeting, COMTek successfully
demonstrated its broadband Internet access for such applications as wireless
point-to-point transmission, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and remote
wireless video surveillance throughout St. Croix’s Carambola Beach Resort, the
site of the event.
In addition to the services COMTek provided
for the conference, other business partners also included: IBM, which provided
12 laptop computers for the COMTek Cyber Café, and BrightStar, which provided
networking products. “The launch of our
broadband services in St. Croix is part of COMTek’s overall strategy to create
a cost-effective, reliable and high-speed communication network to facilitate
business growth and personal prosperity for all Virgin Islanders,” said COMTek
President and CEO Joseph E. Fergus, who was raised in St. Croix. “There is
simply no excuse for offering subpar broadband in this day and age. The people
of the U.S. Virgin Islands deserve the best available technology and we are on
a mission to make sure that they get it at an affordable price.”
COMTek officials said that the superior quality of the firm’s broadband
services means that its clients will be able to use it for such cutting-edge
applications as VoIP phone service, wireless remote video surveillance,
telemedicine and video conferencing. Such applications cannot be conducted
currently in the U.S. Virgin Islands in any kind of consistent or otherwise
satisfactory fashion. “The quality of
COMTek’s advanced tele-communication and broadband services has proven
reliable, far exceeding all of our expectations during the recent Association
of Caribbean Commissioners of Police 20th Annual General Meeting and
Conference,” said USVI Police Commissioner Elton Lewis. “I am extremely proud
that Mr. Joseph Fergus, a Virgin Islands native and a major contributor
towards the success of the conference, has elected to bring COMTek’s
communication services to the Virgin Islands. As a young black nationally
recognized and successful entrepreneur, Mr. Fergus is a positive role model
and a beacon for young Virgin Islanders.”
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