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Cable & Wireless Seeks Latin America Expansion

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Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) which operates in the Caribbean under the brand LIME – is looking to expand its operations with further Latin America acquisitions.

The move follows the recent sale of its Monaco & Islands division to Bahrain’s Batelco for US$680 million and the sale of the 51% stake in the Macau based telecoms network, CTM for US$750 million.

Cable & Wireless  operations remain primarily in the Caribbean and Latin America region and now they have the funds available, they are looking at possible deals in markets such as Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The company is targeting smaller markets and wont invest in countries such as Brazil — which he said were too big for the small company to deal with, says Tony Rice, Chief Executive Officer

He also confirmed that any deal would be aimed at landline assets that come with mobile operations rather than mobile-only operators.

“We see our business model in full service,” saying that the strategy had proved successful so far.

 

BTC Launches HSPA+ Upgrade in Bahamas

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The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has launched a HSPA+ upgrade on its network.

Geoff Houston, the Chief Executive of BTC, said: “Using 4G our customers can communicate, engage socially, handle business and manage many other aspects of life using mobile handsets. For both Bahamians, and the tourists on which this economy depends, this is another significant step forward in the modernisation of the telecommunications infrastructure for these islands.”

UK based Cable & Wireless Communications purchased a majority shareholding in BTC earlier this year from the Government of The Bahamas. C&W is currently introducing HSPA+ data services in a number of its Caribbean businesses.

LIME in Jamaica launches 100 Mbps broadband service

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Cable & Wireless Communications’ (CWC) Caribbean business, Lime, has launched a broadband service for residential customers. Lime is offering customers FTTH broadband plans with download speeds ranging from 12 Mbps to 100 Mbps.

Lime’s FTTH broadband service will initially be available to customers in the Montego Bay and St. Catherine areas. The network will gradually be extended to other parts of the country.

Lime launches 4G services in Cayman Islands

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LIME, the Caribbean business of Cable & Wireless Communications, has launched its 4G network in the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands upgrade is the first part of region-wide HSPA+ roll-out.

LIME‘s Cayman 4G network covers all three Cayman islands (Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac). Lime has also introduced new price plans in Cayman for its 4G services. The packages include voice minutes, SMS and mobile data access. Lime plans to launch 4G services across 12 other Caribbean markets over the next 18 months. Lime Barbados and the Bahamas Telecommunications Company will be the next CWC businesses to launch 4G services later this year.

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Comverse Wins Caribbean Billing Contract with LIME

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Caribbean mobile network, LIME – which is owned by UK based Cable &  Wireless – has selected a platform from Comverse to handle its billing and  customer management, as part of a global framework agreement.

“In our drive to provide the most complete offering at the best value,  Comverse real-time billing and value-added services have served us well,”  said LIME’s Chief Technology Officer, Patrick Bradd. “This major upgrade  will advance our service to a higher level, giving our many lines of business  new capabilities and a coherence that will translate into a compelling enhanced  user experience unmatched in our marketplace.”

Significant OPEX reduction will be achieved by efficiency in numerous aspects  of operations, including servicing from just two centralized locations of the  operator’s entire coverage range across markets in multiple countries spread  over a vast geographical area.

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C&W calls for Digicel-Claro Jamaican Merger to Be Investigated

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Jamaica’s Cable & Wireless – opertating under the brand LIME – has written to the Government, the Office of Utilities Regulations (OUR) and the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) expressing concerns about the recently announced deal for Digicel to buy its local rival, Claro.

Digicel and Claro announced last week that Digicel would sell its businesses in El Salvador and Honduras to America Movil, while in turn Claro Jamaica would be sold to Digicel.

According to analysts, the combined market share of the two companies in Jamaica comes to 80%, leaving Cable & Wireless (LIME) with the remaining 20%. The move has raised concerns that Digicel is effectively returning the country to a de-facto monopoly status.

The company said that given the significance of the merger to the Jamaican telecoms industry, the regulators “should carefully assess the deal, before approval is given by the relevant minister”.

“As a company proudly serving Jamaica for over 140 years, providing employment for more than 1,400 Jamaican workers and with almost 25,000 Jamaican shareholders, we stand ready to cooperate with all industry players to ensure the interests of our country and the Jamaican consumer are best served,” Lime’s managing director, Garry Sinclair said in a brief statement.

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