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Digicel Trials Teleglobe for Hosted Application Managed Roaming Service for Intelligent Roaming Selection; Digicel Now Able to Intelligently Assign Their Outbound Roamers onto Preferred Visited GSM Networks around the World.


HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

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:TLGB) and the Digicel Group, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications provider in the Caribbean, today announced that Digicel Caribbean will use Teleglobe's hosted application Managed Roaming service on a trial basis, enabling Digicel Caribbean to intelligently assign their outbound roamers onto preferred visited GSM networks around the world.

Digicel has been a Teleglobe customer since its flagship launch in Jamaica in 2001. The dynamic company now operates in eight Caribbean countries with licenses recently secured in Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti and announced plans, subject to regulatory approval, to acquire Cingular's Caribbean and Bermuda operations.

Teleglobe's Managed Roaming service will enable Digicel to assign a traveling subscriber onto a specific visited network. Digicel may specify the visited network that provides the best delivery of the home network suite of services, improving the customer experience and increasing use of these services, and/or the preferred tariff terms for roaming, contributing to better average margin per user, or AMPU AMPU Average Margin Per User
AMPU Active Memory Processor Unit
AMPU Automated Maneuver Planning Utility
AMPU Average Minute Per User
.

The Managed Roaming application runs on a platform that is centrally located on Teleglobe's premises, which will allow Digicel to rely on a service rather than investing in a system of its own. Digicel will remain in full control as they remotely manage traveling subscribers' registration onto preferred visited networks via a secure web-based interface to Teleglobe's Managed Roaming application.

"Digicel is continually looking at ways to enhance its services in order to deliver more value added Value Added

The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers.

Notes:
This can either increase the products price or value.
 to our customers and so looks forward to trialing Teleglobe's global managed roaming service," says Ian Marwood, Digicel Group Carrier Services Director. "We believe that by establishing special arrangements with specific roaming partners and ensuring that subscribers are directed to these networks our customers will enjoy significant benefits."

"We are very pleased that Digicel has chosen to trial Teleglobe's global managed roaming service," said Barry MacCheyne, Vice President of Wireless Global Sales. "Our service will allow Digicel to better-manage their roaming business while effectively controlling their costs, and enhancing the customer experience."

The feature-rich Managed Roaming service empowers the home network GSM operator to preferentially select the network for their outbound subscribers. Out-roaming subscribers are directed onto partner and/or preferred networks where advantageous roaming agreements have been established or best service selections can be assured. Margin control while roaming can be achieved through the use of dynamic preferred versus random network assignment. In addition to the cost benefits, the controlled selection of networks ensures improved customer service and satisfaction.

Managed Roaming and other hosted offerings to follow build upon Teleglobe's current signaling services to over 400 GSM operators worldwide, and uses a well-proven highly reliable signaling network that spans over 225 countries. Teleglobe hosts the Managed Roaming application on a rigorously managed, fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. , scalable and open signaling architecture. The service offers the flexibility to either a single mobile operator or a group of operators to apply visited network preference plans on a location-specific basis - by country, region, state or city.

About Digicel:

Since its launch in 2001, Digicel has become the fastest growing wireless telecommunications operator in the Caribbean. In four years, Digicel has become renowned for competitive rates, unbeatable coverage, superior customer care, a wide variety of products and services, and state-of-the-art handsets. It is the largest GSM operator in the region.

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 wireless communications

System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data.
.

Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and operates in eight countries including Aruba, Barbados, Curacao, The Cayman Islands Cayman Islands (kā`mən), British dependency (2005 est. pop. 44,300), 100 sq mi (259 sq km), comprising three islands in the West Indies. , Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Noun 1. St. Vincent and the Grenadines - an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 with plans to launch in Trinidad & Tobago. Digicel has entered into an agreement to acquire, subject to regulatory approval, Cingular Wireless' Bermuda and Caribbean operations that will significantly increase the size of its pan-Caribbean network to include Bermuda, Anguilla, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda (ăntē`gə, –gwə, bärbu`də), independent Commonwealth nation (2005 est. pop. 68,700), 171 sq mi (442 sq km), West Indies, in the Leeward Islands.  and Dominica. Digicel's market share in The Cayman Islands, Grenada, St. Lucia, Barbados and St. Vincent & the Grenadines Grenadines: see Grenada; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Windward Islands. , will also be strengthened as Cingular's customer base will transition to Digicel.

The company is the lead sponsor of Caribbean sports teams including the West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean.  Cricket Team, Special Olympics Special Olympics

International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants.
 teams across the Caribbean and is title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Football Union The Caribbean Football Union, often referred to by the acronym CFU, is the nominal governing body for Caribbean football. It represents 30 FIFA member nations, and its member associations compete in the CONCACAF region.  Cup, which involves over 30 Caribbean countries and is an important qualifier towards the CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer)
CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) 
 Gold Cup.

Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more information on Digicel.

About Teleglobe:

Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd is a leading provider of international voice, data, Internet and mobile roaming services with over 50 years of industry expertise in international telecommunications. Teleglobe became a public company trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol TLGB with the acquisition of Voice over IP (VoIP) network leader ITXC (Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier Corporation, Princeton, NJ, www.itxc.com) The largest IP exchange carrier in the world. ITXC was acquired by wholesale telco provider Teleglobe Bermuda Ltd. in 2004 and then by Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.  Corp. on June 1, 2004.

Teleglobe owns and operates one of the world's most extensive telecommunications networks, reaching over 240 countries and territories with advanced voice, mobile, and data services. Teleglobe is the carrier of choice to more than 1,400 wholesale customers representing the world's leading telecommunications, mobile operators and Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP)

Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password.
.

With an annual run-rate of over 13 billion minutes, and a significant portion of the world's Internet traffic, Teleglobe's network is consistently ranked among the most robust and reliable, performing at the high end of industry standards. Detailed information about Teleglobe is available on the company's web site at www.teleglobe.com.
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