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Technology
News from the Caribbean
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| LONDON, England (Bloomberg): Vodafone Group Plc, the world's largest mobile phone company, has signed a three-year partnership agreement with Digicel Group to offer new roaming capabilities in the Caribbean and Bermuda and on Vodafone's global network. read more.. |
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands:  Cable & Wireless is calling for a better deal for consumers across the Caribbean, as it campaigns to cut the cost of calls from landlines to mobile phones. Chris Hetherington, Cable & Wireless Chief Executive, said: “Consumers need to know the facts. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Fidelity Wireless has announced plans to offer Internet, phone and IPTV/Video on Demand services over a new state of the art wireless broadband network to the residential and business community in Barbados. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Beginning this month, the Government of Canada, through the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), will be providing ion-mobility spectrometry (IMS) technology and related training to six Caribbean Community countries. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): A spam e-mail with messages including "Fidel Castro dead" and "Saddam Hussein safe and sound" contains a virus which has infected thousands of computers, Spain's Association of Internauts said Monday. read more.. |
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KINGSTON, Jamaica:  Digicel, the Caribbean telecommunications operator and new entrant to the Central and South American markets, on Tuesday announced its growth achievements in 2006. Achieving record growth in 2006, Digicel ended the year with a total investment in the region exceeding US$1.5 billion. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters): Internet provider Cariaccess has sued Cable & Wireless and local regulators in two Caribbean nations, claiming it lost more than $65 million because it was denied access to telecommunications networks. read more.. |
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell has said that Jamaica was positioning itself as the leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
destination in the region, including the Latin America grouping...
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Monday, December 5, 2005
 ST. JOHN’S, Antigua: The introduction of
Inet, an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Internet service has repositioned and reestablished the Antigua Public Utilities Authority APUA
Telephones at the forefront of the technological revolution in Antigua and
Barbuda. This has come from Information Minister Dr. Edmond Mansoor...
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Monday, November 7, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cable & Wireless has announced the integration of a state-of-the-art messaging gateway which will enable the company to provide its
bmobile customers with access to more content services, using more content providers, at a more rapid pace, to accommodate
bmobile’s roadmap for messaging, games, music, photos, and other content...
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Friday, October 14, 2005
 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Following the successful launch of
NetSpeak Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services in the Cayman
Islands in May 2005, Cable & Wireless (C&W) has now introduced UK local and
toll-free numbers for subscribers of this service. NetSpeak
customers are able to make unlimited international calls...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The United States Government is sponsoring the
participation of two technical experts to the Caribbean Internet Forum, being
held in Bridgetown, Barbados from October 4 to 5, 2005...
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
CHELMSFORD, England: NSW (Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke), a world leader in the field of repeaterless fiber-optic submarine cable systems, has signed its first contract with Global Marine Systems Limited (Global Marine), which will cover the marine installation and support of the Grand Bahama to Bimini
submarine network...
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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...
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cable &
Wireless is currently testing cross-network text capabilities with Digicel
across the Caribbean. When testing and agreements are finalized, Cable &
Wireless customers will be able to exchange messages with all mobile customers
in the region...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
EDISON, USA: Vonage, one of the leading providers of broadband phone service,
on Monday announced it is expanding its calling packages to include all calls
to Puerto Rico...
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Cuba to switch computers to Linux, dumping Windows
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its state computers, eliminating its exclusive use of Microsoft Windows, the government daily Juventud Rebelde
reported Tuesday...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cable & Wireless has announced its new residential broadband telephony Voice over IP (VoIP) service, branded as "NetSpeak,"
to its customers across all three of the Cayman Islands...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman: Trinidad and Tobago will host a major conference on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP),
the low-cost but controversial voice transmission system already used by
thousands in the region to make cheap phone calls...
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Regional ICT
specialists to meet in Barbados
Friday, February 11, 2005
 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Regional technology specialists will meet in Barbados at the
end of this month to discuss how they can improve competitiveness in the area of Information Communication Technology. Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development, Senator Lynette Eastmond,
will open the workshop...
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Jamaica Government awards licences for fibre
optic cables
Friday, January 7, 2005
KINGSTON, Jamaica: The government of Jamaica has granted two licences for the construction and operation of two submarine fibre
optic networks, which will link Jamaica to North America, and the rest of the
world...
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Cable & Wireless announces hiptop2 device in Jamaica
Friday, December 24, 2004
PALO ALTO, USA: Cable & Wireless announced this week that the Danger hiptop2 wireless solution is now available in Jamaica, exclusively through bmobile...
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Cable & Wireless introduces pre-paid roaming coverage in the Caribbean
Friday, December 17, 2004
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cable & Wireless, the Caribbean's leading communications provider, has added even more service and value for its GSM pre-paid mobile customers by introducing pre-paid roaming
across all 12 of the Caribbean markets it serves...
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Cable & Wireless helping the Caribbean bring the Internet home with its new
"Max" Internet Solution
Thursday, December 2, 2004
SUNNYVALE, USA: Building on the launch of the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) in October 2004, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced Wednesday that Cable & Wireless will be offering the PIC
to residents of the Caribbean...
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Butterfield Bank signs deal for ATM software
Thursday, December 2, 2004
DUBLIN, Ireland: CR2, a global provider of channel and Internet banking, ATM and card payment software solutions, has announced that Cayman Islands-based Butterfield Bank has selected its BankWorld
ATM solution for the management of Butterfield’s ATM network, according to a
news release...
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Digicel introduces rollover minutes in seven Caribbean countries
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Digicel Group on
Monday launched rollover minutes, a new offering that allows customers in the
seven Caribbean countries in which the mobile telecommunications company
operates to keep their unused monthly minutes...
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Digicel applies for submarine fiber network license in Jamaica
Thursday, November 4, 2004
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Digicel, a regional mobile telecommunications provider, has submitted an application for a license to build, own and operate a submarine fibre
optic cable carrier facility in Jamaica...
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Cable & Wireless to offer Blackberry® in the Cayman Islands
Thursday, October 28, 2004
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cable & Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) on Wednesday announced plans to offer BlackBerry to individuals and small businesses in the Cayman Islands via BlackBerry
Internet Service™...
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