Tag: Digicel
Communications outage resolved ahead of storm
(CNS): OfReg said that all communications services were restored at around 2:30am on Tuesday after an issue that mainly impacted Flow and Digicel’s business customers. The regulator said it was now awaiting the final outage resolution reports, which are expected within 14 days from the date of resolution, when a “thorough review to assess the […]
Waterfront phone shop robbed in broad daylight
(CNS): Digicel’s waterfront store in George Town was robbed by two masked men late Friday afternoon as staff were shutting up shop. This was the seventh robbery so far this month. Both men were said to be brandishing firearms as they entered the store on North Church Street at around 5:30pm and demanded cash from […]
Telecoms company offers to pay for new subsea cable
(CNS): International telecommunications company Seaborn Networks has made an unsolicited application to the Utility Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg) to pay for and connect a new undersea communications fibre-optic cable. The proposal is separate from the Cayman Islands Government’s plans to seek a contractor to lay a third subsea cable, which it was expecting to […]
Digicel only local business to cut Facebook ads
(CNS) Regional and local telecoms company Digicel has said it is stopping its paid advertising on Facebook platforms globally for at least July in a “stand against hate speech online”. However, many other businesses in the Cayman Islands and the region are still using the social media giant despite the global concerns about the platform […]
Cell-phone service disrupted at KAABOO
Any idea what the issue was with Flow at KAABOO over the weekend? I couldn’t call, text or email with my service. Everyone I know with Flow had the same issue. We ended up leaving early as we were unable to contact our sitter and my wife was concerned. I presume there were no shenanigans […]
Digicel to cut one in four jobs in restructure
(CNS Business): Digicel is a planning to cut a quarter of its workforce over the next 18 months, the firm said in a statement on its website. The company claims it is reorganising to be “fit for purpose for 2030 and beyond” and this means a 25% reduction of the global workforce over the next […]
Lightning strike in US disrupts local telecoms
(CNS): A telecommunications outage on Tuesday evening impacted a number of different communication firms as operator services struggled to connect to other providers. According to the ICTA Facebook page, a lightning strike at Cable & Wireless’ MAYA1 cable terminal in Florida “linked to hardware failure” was to blame for the impact on Cayman telecoms providers, […]
