FLOW Barbados 300 Mbps for Residential Users - GREAT GAINS FOR BARBADOS' TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR
Channel: Ian Douglas Bourne
Date: 2014-04-27

Important news from Columbus' President and chief operating officer, Mr John Reid, as well as Niall Sheehy, CEO of Flow Barbados and Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss.

In less than a year, Columbus Barbados brought a cutting edge ICT vision as the market experienced a major transformation in the ICT landscape, with maximum download speeds increasing from 8 mbps to a whopping 150 mbps, the first fastest speeds available to residential customers in the region. More importantly, customers are accessing this increased bandwidth for much less, with the price of broadband services dramatically decreased by as much as 42% in 2013. Columbus Barbados recruited over 90 new staff members to date, and this number is expected to grow in the coming months. With a continued investment in excess of US$60 million, service is already available to over 60% of homes in Barbados and this is expected to expand to over 80% footprint by the end of 2014.