4 things to know as Digicel readies to launch 4G Broadband in Jamaica

MOBILE telephone service provider Digicel is about to unveil its 4G Broadband offering in Jamaica. Here four reasons that makes this a viable business case for them.

1. There are about 263,000 households in Jamaica that have computers, and growing at about 8 per cent a year.

2.  There are 110,000 homes with Broadband penetration, primarily with Flow and LIME DSL.

3. Then there are 147,000 customers that do not have computers, so in order to improve Internet penetration we have to improve PC penetration

What will Digicel 4G Broadband do?

4. Digicel 4G Broadband will cover 60 per cent of the population. Jamaica is comprised of around 750,000 households and we will make Broadband available to 410,000 of them. We now have 2 million Digicel customers and our Broadband offering is likely to cover 1.2 million of those.”  More