Archive for the 'Broadband' Category

Blinking in Vain

Blink Broadband, the TSTT rebranded internet service despite having numerous issues seems to have struck on an ingenious marketing plan.
Looking at their benefits page and the last bullet point for Residential Customers includes the sub heading Vanity Sales. It goes on to explain that “Some people will want service to keep up [...]

Cable operators Telstar Cable System and Green Dot have each won 10-year spectrum licenses for broadband and wireless services.
Telstar won all 12 blocks in the 12Ghz band at US$650,000 per block per year, meaning a total of US$7.8mn a year, the report said.
Green Dot took three blocks in the lower 700Mhz band, at US$177,000 per [...]

The website for TSTT’s upgraded service Blink Broadband has gone live and is now accessible.
TSTT is calling Blink “the fastest, most affordable Broadband service in Trinidad & Tobago that offers customers a great bundled package of an ADSL connection, an Internet connection and a Firewall service.”
Blink offers two promotional pricing packages, a Residential and [...]

Broadband Wars

So TSTT is trying to pull the wool over consumers’ eyes by rebranding their High Speed internet division to Blink because it’s “just that fast” or whatever it is their ads are saying. But here’s what I’m saying. Yet again we see TSTT being reactive, as was the case when Digicel entered the market.
Some time [...]

TSTT Upgrades Broadband

TSTT is upgrading the speed and capacity of their broadband network to effectively service more customers at faster speeds. The service is allegedly called Blink Broad Band even though the website is currently unavailable.
TSTT said the project “will ultimately deliver broadband access speeds of up to 10Mbps and reach every exchange in Trinidad [...]

The Broad Band

Could the disparity between broadband haves and have-nots limit the growth potential and the attainment of Vision 2020.
Wired recently highlighted the difference in the same broadband speed across the world and made a comparison to average monthly income.
The pixel that seemingly represents Trinidad and Tobago, depending on your color acumen, puts us at [...]