Oct 15 2007, 09:15 PM --
People living in several rural areas throughout the country will soon be able to access high-speed broadband Internet access as efficiently and as cheaply as someone in the heart of Port of Spain as new frequencies have been made available to service providers.
After a day of bidding on several blocks of the available frequency bands (12 GHz and 700 GHz) it was stated by the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) recently that two companies won several blocks of radio frequency and are now eligible for national spectrum licences.
The licences, granted by the Ministry of Public Administration and Information, will give Green Dot Ltd and Telstar Cable System the authority to provide public broadband wireless access (BWA) services.
While Green Dot is already an authorised wireless Internet provider, one of the company's directors, Ajmal Nazir, told the Express the three blocks of 700 MHz frequency they acquired at the auction will allow them to provide the service to customers at all areas of the country.
"This frequency can travel through trees and along the coasts and will allow internet services to reach a whole new group of customers who were before too marginalised to access wireless High-speed net," Nazir said last Friday.
In his address at a press conference at Hotel Normandie, St Ann's following the auction sale, executive director of TATT Cris Seecharan said the opening of the information and communication technologies market would allow more competition and therefore give citizens a chance to access cheaper data services such as Internet and cable TV.
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