C&WJ Investing US$40mn in New Mobile Base Stations
The Jamaican unit of UK-owned telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) will spend J$2.8bn (US$39.6mn) in erecting 120 new mobile base stations over the next 18 months to upgrade its mobile and broadband services, local daily Jamaica Gleaner reported.
Once completed, the company will have more than 600 cell sites, a number which nonetheless will still be far behind its main competitor, Irish-owned Digicel, which has over 1,000 sites.
The investment is part of a J$5bn cash injection into the company's mobile, VoIP, local telephony and broadband services infrastructure in its operations in the Caribbean and Panama.
Earlier this month, Cable & Wireless International and infrastructure provider Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said they had closed a US$40mn deal to deliver next generation wireless network services to the Caribbean region.
Posted to the site on 25th October 2007
