People Finder capable Wireless (Landmobile) Network Operators HAITI --
Everett Batey CCHAITILA
They support Roaming to AT&T, feature Nokia N73. No clue if T-Mobiles
would be allowed to Register on their GSM (probably EDGE at best
network)
Will T-Mobile or and other GSM-HTC provider companies unlock Droids to
re-register in Haiti with DigiCelHaiti?
Would Droids get basic data connection needs satisfied if able to
register on DigiCelHaiti?
See (translated from French to English)
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=b...
EXTRACT: FROM Wikipedia -- Telcom Haiti<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Telecommunications_in_Haiti> (GSM and CDMA) Page Search down to
"*Telephones - mobile cellular*" *Telephones - mobile cellular:* 2.4
million (May 2007) or 30% coverage rate.
There are three major cell phone providers in Haiti: Digicel, Comcel,
and
Haitel. *Comcel*, a subsidiary of Trilogy International Partners
LLC<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Trilogy_International_Partn...>, was a *TDMA* company which
launched its service in September 1999. *Haitel*, an independent
company founded by Franck Ciné, a Haitian-American and former *MCI/
Worldcom* executive, adopted *CDMA* technology. *Digicel Haiti*, an
affiliate of the pan-Caribbean Digicel Group <http://
www.digicelgroup.com/>won Haiti's first *GSM* license in June 2005 and
launched service in early 2006.
In May 2006, *Comcel* and *Haitel* had a total of about
*500,000*subscribers - that is a cell phone coverage rate of 6% for a
population of 8.2 million. Then, *Digicel* entered the market in May
2006, and revolutionized the cell phone industry with low prices and
attractive services so that after just one year of operations, May
2006-May 2007, *
Digicel* went from zero to *1.4 millions subscribers.* The other two
cell phone providers, *Comcel* and *Haitel*, responded by cutting
their prices and offering new services such as Voila, a *GSM* service
by *Comcel*, and *CDMA* 2000 by *Haitel*. As a result, *Comcel* and
*Haitel* increased their subscribers from *500,000* to *1 million*.
That's a grand total of *2.4 millions cell phone subscribers in
Haiti*. For a total population of about 8.2 million people, that's a
cell phone coverage rate of 30% (a 5-fold increase in just one year)
In May 2007, *Digicel* started offering two *Blackberry* services with
Internet, one for enterprises and one for individuals.
*Telephone system: Domestic facilities are barely adequate.
International facilities are slightly better domestic: coaxial cable
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable> and microwave radio relay
trunk service international: satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat>(Atlantic Ocean)*
Everett Batey -- WA6CRE -- efbatey AT gmail DOT com CCHaitiLA
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