C&Amp;W to Invest $800m in Mobile Division
Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed. › July 30, 2009
Linked as:
Summary
"It allows full in-building penetration," Mr. [Sean Bryan] said at a C&W press conference on Thursday, May 20. One of the problems C&W mobile customers now have is garbled transmissions or dropped calls when they use their cell phones within buildings. That problem should now be alleviated.
Digicel and C&W are the main competitors in the cellular communications market, and Patrick Gillings, the C&W senior vice-president for marketing and communications, conceded that Digicel has more customers than his company. But he said C&W was competing on a different level than just the number of customers. The company has retained most of its high value corporate customers and the new investment will help it to keep them, Mr. Gillings said."Corporate customers are data centred," said Ian Neita, senior vice-president with responsibility for mobile services. The increased in-building penetration offered by the new system, "will give corporate customers greater flexibility to transmit data using their mobile system."See the full content of this document
Extract
C&Amp;W to Invest $800m in Mobile Division
CABLE & Wireless is making an $800 million investment to secure its position as the dominant player in Jamaica's telecommunications market.
The company will `ov...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
