Government has received a donation of 650 kilometres of fibre-optic cable from local cable television providers and the island’s two major toll road operators, to help improve the nation’s broadband connectivity. The cable television operators include the island’s two largest cable providers and 34 smaller rural cable providers. “The fibre-optic cables will form part of the National Fibre Optic Communication...

Today (December 18), Flow and Digicel will be required to provide their customers with full information about charges applicable for service as the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) commences phase two of the execution of directives to the telecommunications providers. The information provided by the companies must include full contract details such as exclusions, limitations and duration of any fixed...

One hundred and seventy students across St. James have received tablet computers from the St. James Municipal Corporation, which represents the local authority’s contribution to the Government’s Tablets in Schools Programme. The tablets, valued at more than $4 million, were presented to the beneficiaries on December 16 at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre, Sam Sharpe Square in Montego Bay. Ten...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz, is encouraging members of the legal fraternity to embrace information and communications technology (ICT), in order to serve the citizens. The Minister was speaking at the third in the series of Jamaica International Arbitration Centre Limited (JAIAC) ‘Coffee Time’ webinars, on December 17, under the theme ‘Technology, Innovation and the Changing...

By early next year, the Government intends to grant a third cellular licence to a new entity to provide additional mobile telecommunication services for the country. This was disclosed by Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz, who noted that “we are going to have a Request for Proposal for spectrum in January 2021. This is approved by...

Infirmaries and Golden Age Homes across the island will benefit from a donation of more than 40 smartphones from telecommunications provider, Digicel, to enable residents to make contact with loved ones during the Christmas season. Some of the phones were handed over today (December 16), and will be used to enhance the ‘Virtually Connected While Staying Socially Distant Initiative’, being...

The Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology has secured the assistance of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to develop a national broadband strategy, which will support the implementation of the islandwide broadband network. In addition, a national broadband task force, under the chairmanship of Michael Lee Chin, has been formed to provide high-level guidance to the Ministry’s team and to...