Business View Caribbean - November 2016 49
BVM: Has anything of interest occurred recently
within the SMA?
McBean:
“Yes, there are a couple of things. Let me
start on the commercial side, first. We just licensed
a new cellular operator – a local Jamaican firm, who
will be offering broadband LTE (Long-term Evolution)
services in the 700 Megahertz band - and that’s a
band which has been popular in recent times. They’ll
primarily be doing data, so that will make three mobile
band operators that we have. We have an established
operator that is also moving onto an LTE network. Both
operators have versions of LTE that they are rolling
out. It will bring high-speed data to a lot of remote ar-
eas. We’ve also seen a sharp rise in people requesting
broadband frequencies for data.
