Columbus Communications was a

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, and

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speed

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. Operating as a regional media company, Columbus is currently financially based in

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate ...

and provides services in Grenada,

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispan ...

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, small ...

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coas ...

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, and

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. The company's operations in Antigua and Barbuda were previously branded as Karib Cable. But it as well as its operations in other countries are now under the

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branding. The company formerly held a 71% share in Cable Bahamas, before divesting of that holding in 2010.

History

Columbus entered the Curaçao retail market in January 2010 through the acquisition of Curaçao Cable TV NV, a fledgling start up that held video and internet concessions, but had yet to reach the commercial stage. By the fall of 2010, a new fully digital video head end was constructed, providing Flow customers access to more than 250 video and audio channels by far the most comprehensive television service in Curaçao. In addition, Flow offers residential broadband internet packages ranging from an entry-level service of 5 Mbit/s up to 100 Mbit/s. In partnership with its sister company, Columbus Business Solutions, they also provide a range of corporate data services including data storage, disaster recovery, IP services, hosting and business continuity services. The company was then officially acquired by Cable & Wireless Communications, the parent company of another fellow telecommunications company in the Caribbean, named LIME. The cost of the acquisition was USD $1.85 Billion dollars. The company has now become a fully owned entity of CWC.

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has now become the consumer-facing brand for the new company across all of

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's former LIME. It offers quad-play services (i.e. mobile, fixed voice, fixed home broadband and television).

Management & Executive Team

*Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brendan Paddick *President and COO, Paul W. Scott * Chief Financial Officer, Maxwell Parsons, C.A.

References

External links

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Columbus NetworksCOLUMBUS COMMUNICATIONS EXPANDS OPERATIONS TO GRENADA
- (14 April 2008)
Columbus to run fibre-optic cable from Colombia to Jamaica
- Jamaica Observer (25, May 2007)
Flow gets nod on all-island(Jamaica) cable licence
- Jamaica Observer (01, April 2007)
Alcatel and Columbus Communications inaugurate FibraLink submarine network in Jamaica
- Press Release (5 April 2006)

- Trinidad and Tobago Guardian Newspaper (16 February 2006)
Alcatel to deploy a new submarine optical cable network to serve Jamaica
- Press Release (7 June 2005)
New World Network Completes Sale to Columbus Communications
- Press Release (12 September 2005)
Columbus Communications acquires New World Network
- (15 September 2005)
John Risley And Michael Lee-Chin — The Cable Guys
- Canadian Business Online (5 December 2005)

- ttgapers.com (11 May 2007) {{CATV Americas Cable television companies Companies of Jamaica Mass media companies of Trinidad and Tobago Companies of Barbados

History

Management & Executive Team

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