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BrightPath Foundation brings TechLink to T&T
Secondary school teachers and students will be immersed in a day of technology gadgets, spacemen and science experiments when the BrightPath TechLink program comes to T&T this month.“TechLink...
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Internet Society brings regional tech experts to Trinidad
Technology experts from across the region will this week gather in Trinidad for a two-day meeting at the Telecommunications Authority (TATT) office. Shernon Osepa, manager of regional affairs for the...
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T&T launches Internet exchange point
T&T has become the latest Caribbean nation to launch an Internet exchange point (IXP).Called TTIX, the local IXP brings together seven of the country’s Internet service providers (ISPs)....
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Strengthening the Caribbean Internet
T&T became the latest Caribbean country to take a key step toward building a more robust domestic Internet. The establishment of the T&T Internet Exchange, dubbed TTIX, situates a critical...
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T&T "very active" in global Internet debate, says ISOC boss
T&T has come in for praise from the international community supporting the global Internet. Raul Echeberría, vice president of global engagement at the Internet Society, described T&T as “very...
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TTIX key to T&T’s Internet economy growth
The recent establishment of an Internet exchange point (IXP) in T&T is a necessary step in strengthening the country’s local Internet economy. But it is not enough, says Bevil Wooding, Internet...
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Jamaican innovator to bring Edufocal to T&T
A web-based e-learning app from Jamaica could soon be helping T&T students. Called Edufocal, the programme is already helping Jamaican students at the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) and...
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Caribbean voices joining global Internet debate
The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)—the entity that controls key bits of the Internet—gathers in Los Angeles this week to tackle an array of hot issues, in particular,...
View ArticleJamaica's Team Node420 wins regional code sprint in Suriname
A group of Jamaican developers won top regional honours in a regional hackathon, held as part of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture in Suriname last week. Team Node420 beat seven other teams of young...
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Guardian partners with Caribbean GIS to track chikungunya in the Caribbean
Everything about chikungunya is painful. Even the virus’ name comes from a Kimakonde word describing the contortions of one suffering severe joint ache. Fever, rash, cramps, headache, nausea and...
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Cable & Wireless acquisition ignites monopoly fears in the Caribbean
When Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) announced an agreement to acquire Columbus International, news of the deal sparked widespread concerns about the impact of reduced competition on consumer...
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CWC mega deal worries TATT: Unfair Edge
Concerns have been expressed that Cable & Wireless Communication’s (CWC) proposed US$3 billion acquisition of regional cable provider Columbus International (also know as FLOW) could lead to a...
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CWC on the rise
On Thursday, Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) announced that it would be buying Columbus International (http://ow.ly/E1VDU), the quadplay, broadband backhaul upstart that matched the challenge...
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Does Cabinet face ‘chain up’ with 49% of TSTT?
On Thursday, in this space, the issue of the place of local, and by extension regional, investors in the future of the regional telecommunications industry was raised. By my calculation, when you add...
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Can Digicel survive mega merger?
In the recent past, Denis O’Brien, who is believed to own 94 per cent of Digicel, would have looked at his sprawling telecommunications company and realised that the company’s rapid growth of previous...
View ArticleInfrastructure for cable has come far
The critics of the Cable & Wireless Communications acquisition of Flow are out in earnest. But have these detractors taken an equitable look at the background?There may well be consequent loss of...
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How will regional regulators respond to CWC's acquisition of Columbus?
Can telecommunications regulators from across the Caribbean see beyond their national interests and present a unified regional response to a common challenge? The recent announcement by Cable and...
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CWC/Columbus: Deal good for prices, jobs, investment
Cable & Wireless Communications Columbus International have said that their proposed merger will increase competition with Digicel, enhance customer choice and boost long-term investment and...
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Cable and Wireless handed over customer data in secret deal with UK government
Cable and Wireless worked with a British government spy agency to hand over the Internet data of millions of people around the world, according to international media reports.The news breaks amid...
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On Microsoft’s M4 Roadshow
On Thursday, Microsoft T&T hosted a major local conference at the Hyatt Regency, with a strong slate of speakers ready to explain the company’s offerings (http://ow.ly/EKxcl) to a profile of...
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