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

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and provides services in

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Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

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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 Flow 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

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, named LIME. The cost of the acquisition was US$1.85 Billion dollars. The company has now become a fully owned entity of CWC. FLOW has now become the consumer-facing brand for the new company across all of CWC'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,

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*President and COO, Paul W. Scott *

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, Maxwell Parsons, C.A.

References

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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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