Digicel acquires French unit.Jamaica-based mobile phone company Digicel Digicel is a mobile phone network provider in the Caribbean region. Based in Jamaica, the company provides mobile services in 22 neighbouring islands and countries. With operations across the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and the Pacifc region, the company has an said it has acquired France Telecom's cellular operation here, leaving Dominica with just two wireless companies, reports AP (Sept. 15, 2009). Digicel said it completed the acquisition of Orange Dominica but did not disclose terms or say how many new customers it would add. Dominica's population is about 73,000. Its other mobile phone company is LIME lime, in botany lime, in botany, small shrublike tree (Citrus aurantifolia) of the family Rutaceae (rue family), one of the citrus fruit trees, similar to the lemon but more spreading and irregular in growth. , previously known as Cable & Wireless Ltd. Digicel entered the market in 2006. Digicel, incorporated in Bermuda, is majority owned by its founder, Irish businessman Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien, (born April 19 1958 in County Cork), is an Irish entrepreneur. An Arts graduate of University College Dublin, O'Brien received an MBA in corporate finance from Boston College in 1982, he holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin. , and claims 8 million subscribers in the Caribbean and Central America Central America, narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. . |
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