Cubans’ ability to communicate with one another and the world remained well below the norm for the Caribbean and Latin America in 2009, according to a government report released this week. Despite the legalization of mobile phones in 2008 there were just 1.8 million phone lines in the country, or 15.5 lines for every 100 inhabitants, which was the lowest in the region, according to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union.
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WITHOUT fanfare, Scotiabank on Monday launched Scotia Mobile Banking services to customers across the Caribbean including Barbados, The Bahamas and Trinidad & Tobago. Customers can now check their balances, transfer funds and pay bills from the convenience of their Internet-enabled mobile phone.
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I remember when I had just started to grow my then web development company Dutchpot Interactive from 2003-2006. We enjoyed brisk business primarily because of our customer service, design talents and our keen understanding of the business context of why companies must be online. In house at our Seymour Park digs we had a team of 7 people. We won new business, we won retainers with corporate companies the whole nine yards.
Then things changed.
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( JAMAICA) Digicel typically has many promotions and competitions to win things running at the same time. They usually promote it through the traditional media, on their website and also by sending a text message to you making you aware of the competition, if you are a prepaid customer when you check your credit status they tag it to the text message that comes back to you with the dollar value of credit left on your phone or if you call their customer service you hear the audio promotion before you are put through to an operator. They promote their stuff 360 degrees and hey that is why they are number uno in the Jamaican market- they are ubiquitous. More
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While updating MobileCaribe.com this morning. I got a call on my landline and it was from L.I.M.E, formerly Cable & Wireless, who I’ve unashamedly called Crabbit & Wicked in the past and many times they deserved it. 
The customer service lady on the phone said they are randomly calling existing Internet customers to offer them 8Mbps of ADSL speed for JA$2,699. If you say yes to the package (which I did) you get the first 30 days at the old rate and you can choose to ask them to turn it back down to your old speed (I had 2mbs but never got more than 875kbps in the 3 years I’ve had it).
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MobileCaribe.com is the Caribbean and Latin America CellPhone Blog. The goal is to connect readers to cellphone news,trends, products and companies that impact their daily lives. It’s a Caribbean Flavoured Guide to What Caribbean People and Caribbean Companies worldwide are doing with the Mobile Phone. MobileCaribe.com is part of a fast growing Caribbean Blog Media Network that includes BlogsCaribe and CaribbeanStartupBlog.com and has just over 100,000 unique readers monthly.
The Caribbean Blog Media Network is a product of Connectimass, a Digital Marketing Firm based in Kingston,Jamaica and Atlanta, USA.
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