Caribbean Telecommunications Report Q4 2016

NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- View:

We have not made significant revisions to our Caribbean outlook in the Q416 report. We retain the view that increasing competition in the Caribbean telecoms markets has potential to enhance innovation and improve customer choice. The announcement in May 2016 that Jamaica had launched a third mobile operator increases the prospects of competition in that market. Jamaica's mobile market is currently a duopoly between Digicel and LIME. Although the arrival of a third mobile operator would help to shake up the Trinidad & Tobago mobile market, we still expect the process to take years to play out as licence fees are agreed, spectrum allocated, networks deployed and services launched. Haiti and Cuba represent the largest organic growth opportunities in the region as both are significantly underdeveloped compared to their peers. However, the risks associated with business in these two markets mean that a mobile subscription boom is far from likely

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