{"id":1673,"date":"2011-09-12T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:48:03","slug":"roundup-for-the-week-ending-11-september-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2011\/09\/roundup-for-the-week-ending-11-september-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: for the week ending 11 September 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a roundup of the ICT\/technology news across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 5 September to Sunday 11 September 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday, 5 September 2011<\/h3>\n

DCA probing cell phone towers<\/h4>\n

Antigua & Barbuda <\/em>\u2013 The Development Control Authority (DCA) is hoping to bring a quick conclusion to its investigation on whether or not local telecommunications companies are constructing cell towers without the department\u2019s permission\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, 6 September 2011<\/h3>\n

\u2013 nil \u2013<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 7 September 2011<\/h3>\n

Phone Service Restored to North Eleuthera, Harbour Island<\/h4>\n

Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Slightly more than one week after Hurricane Irene slammed The Bahamas leaving residents on several islands without power, telephone or water, BTC announced today that full landline and cellular phone services were restored to North Eleuthera, Spanish Wells and Harbour Island\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

New radio station to launch<\/h4>\n

Cayman Islands <\/em>\u2013 Folks in the Cayman Islands are set to get a Hits and Hip Hop radio station early next month, with the launch of STAR 92.7FM\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

Reminder New Dialing Code Country St. Maarten<\/h4>\n

St. Maarten <\/em>\u2013 Bureau Telecommunications and Post St. Maarten would like to remind the general public of St. Maarten about the upcoming change to dialing code 1-721 for country St. Maarten on September 30th 2011\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, 8 September 2011<\/h3>\n

Netflix to launch in the Caribbean on Monday<\/h4>\n

Barbados<\/em> \u2013 Caribbean television stations, video stores, movie theatres, and even video pirates could find their businesses under threat when Netflix, the world’s largest Internet movie and TV series subscription service starts rolling out its service in the Caribbean from September 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday, 9 September 2011<\/h3>\n

Project to bring cybercrime solutions to Barbados<\/h4>\n

Barbados<\/em> \u2013 BBs, texts, emails, VoIP, Facebook, Twitter — these are the tools of modern communication, and living without them has now become almost unimaginable. But, how many of us truly understand how they work and the risks associated with using the infinite space called the World Wide Web? … more<\/a><\/p>\n

LIME delivers enhanced Internet and Customer services<\/h4>\n

Grenada <\/em>\u2013 Two rural communities have recently received an upgrade in its Internet Service by LIME, which was in keeping with the company\u2019s commitment to ensure Grenada is ICT ready\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

GTC pensioners maintain call for more money<\/h4>\n

Guyana <\/em>\u2013 Former employees of the Guyana Telecommunications Corporation (GTC), now GT&T, on Friday called on the government to renegotiate the pensions that have been offered to them following their departure from the once wholly state-owned entity\u2026 more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Casserly leading team to secure investments in BPO<\/h4>\n

Jamaica <\/em>\u2013 PATRICK Casserly, the recently appointed ambassador\/special envoy with responsibility for information, communication and technology (ICT) in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, will lead a team from JAMPRO to the Gartner Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit scheduled for Florida next week, as the government ramps up its efforts to secure investments in the country’s business process outsourcing (BPO) sector\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

Commish warns cops about use of social media<\/h4>\n

Jamaica <\/em>\u2013 POLICE Commissioner Owen Ellington, has warned members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to be careful in their use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday, 10 September 2011<\/h3>\n

LIME rallies with Internet Assistance to Laptop users<\/h4>\n

St. Kitts & Nevis<\/em> \u2013 LIME is showing no signs of slowing down in their contributions towards the development of education as today (Sept. 9) they announced the second phase of their Internet for Life package\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday, 11 September 2011<\/h3>\n

Cloud computing slashes cost of business telephones<\/h4>\n

Jamaica <\/em>\u2013 Firms can now significantly reduce capital expenditure and realise up to 25 per cent bottom-line savings on their cash flow. Digicel Business, the arm of the telecommunication provider which specialises in corporate solutions, said this became a reality with the launch of its Cloud Telephony on Friday\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n

____________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a roundup of the ICT\/technology news across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 5 September to Sunday 11 September 2011. Monday, 5 September 2011 DCA probing cell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82,17,11,77,18],"tags":[81,71,48,78,79,42],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-business","category-caribbean","category-ict-tech","category-news","category-telecoms-2","tag-broadcasting-2","tag-businesses","tag-infrastructure","tag-news-roundup","tag-numbering","tag-social-media","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iE1G-qZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}