IN THE MEDIA

TELCELL TDMA SERVICES ENDED

POND ISLAND--February 13, 2009-- St.Maarten Telephone TelEm Group of Companies’ mobile phone division shut down its outdated TDMA services on Thursday, ending a decade of calling on the now-obsolete digital platform and leaving only one Dutch St. Maarten provider still using the framework. TelCell transferred most of its subscribers to the newer GSM platform in mid-January.

Four of the longest-serving TelCell employees who were there when the company started with digital service cut the power to a row of TDMA IS-136 base stations and stopped the system exchange via three terminals in the control room. Read more>>>

ST. MAARTEN LIKELY HOST FOR 2010 TELECOM CONFERENCE

MAHO--February 12, 2009-- St. Maarten is the likely host of next year’s Capacity Caribbean telecommunications conference after the two-day networking session held here this week drew the largest crowd in three years, organizers said on Wednesday.

Local information and communications technology (ICT) professionals exchanged opinions and contact information with counterparts from the region, U.S. and Europe at Capacity Caribbean 2009, a conference intended to bring wholesale phone and Internet providers together for cross-regional and international cooperation. Read more>>>