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Global CEO Magazine:
Digicel's goal is to deliver the best coverage, the best customer care and the best value to each and every one of its customers
 
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Digicel has become the largest wireless telecommunications opera tor in the Caribbean with more than six million customers. After seven years, Digicel is renowned for its competitive rates, unbeatable coverage, superior customer care, a wide variety of products and services and state-of-the-art handsets. By offering innovative wireless services and community support, Digicel has become a leading brand in the Caribbean and has placed the region at the cutting-edge of wireless communications – the company is also a new entrant to the Central American market.

 
 
 

Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and now has operations in 31 markets worldwide. Its Caribbean and Central American markets comprise Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, St Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos. The Caribbean company also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barths. Digicel Pacific comprises Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean and Central American sports teams, including the West Indies Cricket Team and Special Olympics teams throughout the region. It is also the title sponsor of Digicel Caribbean Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel, which are the Caribbean and Central American qualifiers to the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Digicel, the largest telecommunications operator in the Caribbean and new entrant to Central America was launched in Jamaica in April 2001 as the country's first GSM mobile provider, ending a telecommunications monopoly that existed for decades. Digicel's goal is to deliver the best coverage, the best customer care and the best value to each and every one of its customers. Incorporated in Bermuda, the company has operations in 26 markets in the Caribbean and Central America. Digicel consistently introduces exciting, first-to-market technology innovations and is aggressively expanding its business operations. Digicel Pacific Ltd., a sister company to Digicel Group, already has operations in five markets. Digicel rapidly gains market share in every country it has entered to date and has invested in excess of $3.4 bn across 31 markets worldwide. The privately-owned company has over seven million total subscribers in Digicel Group alone, representing an annual growth rate of more than 50%. Digicel Group Ltd. closed its March 2008 financial year with revenues of more than $1.5 bn. Digicel was founded by Denis O'Brien, a successful telecommunications entrepreneur who established Esat Telecom in Ireland, which was valued at $2.5 bn when it was acquired in 2001 by British Telecom after a hostile bid takeover attempt by Telenor.

 
 
 

Global CEO Magazine, Digicel, Wireless Telecommunications, Central American Markets, Digicel Caribbean Championships, Copa de Naciones Digicel, Customer Care, Business Operations, Digicel Group, GSM Mobile, Innovative Products, GSM Technologies, Liberalization Process, Digicel Foundation.