Topic: telecom

Cayman telecoms provider FLOW will face financial penalties for overcharging business customers over a three-year period.

When leaders of the Cayman Islands telecommunications companies heard Premier Alden McLaughlin say the government was going to build a fiber optic network throughout the east side of Grand Cayman – and make the telecom companies pay for it – they might have thought they were experiencing a “bad connection.”

“Truth in Advertising” guidelines for telecom companies, published this week by the Information and Communications Technology Authority, require companies offering phone, internet and other services to be honest when marketing to consumers.

He is the least sentimental of the media moguls, known for being a dispassionate judge of a business’s worth. And now he wants to sell Time Warner. Maybe we should be listening to what Jeff Bewkes is telling us.

Caribbean and Latin American telecommunications provider CWC reported that it has grown its mobile business by 148,000 subscribers, or 4 percent, to a total subscriber base of 3.7 million in the first quarter of its business year starting in April.

The Bermuda-based parent company of Logic, KeyTech Ltd., and CellOne, a subsidiary of Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. have completed the merger of their business operations.

Fines for phone, Internet and television providers in Cayman will increase from $25,000 to $500,000 for violating their licenses and telecom rules under new rules passed in a second reading at the Legislative Assembly on Sunday.

Telecommunications provider Flow experienced outages on Wednesday affecting its fixed-line services, including inbound and outbound calls.

Tuesday’s phone and Internet outage, caused by a lightning strike that affected an underwater cable connecting Cayman to the digital world, has regulators with the Information and Communications Technology Authority worried about the country’s telecom infrastructure.

Telecommunications company Digicel last week signed a three-year partnership with Trinidadian producer, songwriter and soca musician Machel Montano to be its regional brand ambassador.