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Jamaica : DIGICEL JAMAICA and LIME declare to boost Internet Services [TendersInfo (India)]
[April 08, 2014]

Jamaica : DIGICEL JAMAICA and LIME declare to boost Internet Services [TendersInfo (India)]


(TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Digicel Jamaica and LIME declared that they will boost their Internet services for providing users with advanced access.

Phillip Paulwell, Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining Minister, has made this announcement. During the launch of a Vision 2050 Information Technology (IT) initiative at Oberlin High School in West Rural St Andrew, he said that both the telecommunication companies have committed to upgrade broadband services in a much more vigourous way. He also advised that another firm could start providing telecommunications services in Jamaica shortly.



He stated that the company s entry into the Jamaican market is supposed to, among other things, contribute significantly to making Internet service costs more competitive. Paulwell said, "I believe that the price for broadband (service) is too high. We want to see more competition...to get those prices down...and (as such), I am going to bring in another (provider)". He also appreciated the Vision 2050 initiative that targets to equip young people in West Rural St Andrew with IT skills.

The initiative is being spearheaded by Member of Parliament Paul Buchanan whom the minister lauded for conceptualising a "highly structured" skills development programme. Paulwell aided the targeted beneficiaries to uphold and use the programme's provisions "to secure better development for our people...more jobs, greater wealth, and a better quality of life." Buchanan stated that HEART/NTA will administer the training component, for which it has contributed $1.5 million. Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning will add remedial assistance to persons with literacy challenges, before they are allowed to commence IT training, he added.


Buchanan also advised that persons who already have post-secondary subjects will be able to commence IT training immediately.

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