bmobile is a Mobile Phone, Home Security provider, and fixed wireless provider of Trinidad and Tobago, operating as a division of

TSTT Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (generally known as TSTT) is an incumbent telephone and Internet service provider in Trinidad and Tobago. The company, which is jointly owned by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, Go ...

History

TSTT has re-branded its mobile division to bmobile along with other Cable & Wireless companies in the Caribbean. Since then, almost all the other Caribbean mobile divisions have been re-branded to LIME and now FLOW. In 1991, they launched their AMPS network. This network was decommissioned on September 8, 2006. In 2002, bmobile launched its

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network. In 2007, they began launching data services (fixed wireless) on a

CDMA2000 CDMA2000 (also known as C2K or IMT Multi‑Carrier (IMT‑MC)) is a family of 3G mobile technology standards for sending voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites. It is developed by 3GPP2 as a backwards-compatib ...

EVDO Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO, EVDO, etc.) is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access. EV-DO is an evolution of the CDMA2000 ( IS-2000) standard which ...

network. This was later upgraded to

WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a family of wireless broadband communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 set of standards, which provide physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) options. The WiMA ...

and then to LTE. The network operates on LTE band 41 (2.5 GHz) On June 14, 2011, they began to sell the

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and

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. In March 2014, the company announced 3G

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. UMTS uses Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) radio access technolog ...

offering

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data services to all customers. Part of its 5-year strategy, bmobile refreshed its brand and announced a launch of

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over its

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as well as improved speeds by upgrading its existing

network to support

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. Days later, on December 9, 2016, the company went live with its

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which, at the time of launch, was only available in

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, San Fernando, and soon after, a few locations in

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Band 2 (1900 MHz). Service was launched on LTE Band 28 (700 MHz) in October 2020 alongside the introduction of

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. The company began broadcasting on LTE Band 4 (1700 MHz) in late 2022 and later launched 3 carrier-aggregation and 4x4 MIMO. 256 QAM is also active on the network.

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services (VoLTE) were launched on January 29, 2025. In order for bmobile to do an LTE rollout however, the company decommissioned its 2G

1900 MHz network. bmobile's parent company also purchased Massy Communications, now branded as AMPLIA, a move which saw the company increase its market share against the Caribbean-heavyweights, FLOW and

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. AMPLIA offers TV and fiber broadband services and also resells bmobile's landline and home security services. Logo of Bmobile TT

Radio frequency summary

bmobile operates

and

mobile networks and a Fixed Wireless LTE network in all of

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i ...

. The company launched a limitedly available FWB NR network in December 2018. The following is a list of known frequencies that bmobile employs in Trinidad and Tobago:

References

External links

bmobile website
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History

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