Columbus Communications was a
cable television,
telephone, and
Broadband speed
Internet service provider. Operating as a regional media company, Columbus is currently financially based in
Barbados and provides services in
Grenada
Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
,
Jamaica,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
,
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign country in the West Indies. It lies at the juncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, at 17°N latitude. The country consists of two maj ...
,
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
, and
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The company's operations in Antigua and Barbuda were previously branded as Karib Cable. But it as well as its operations in other countries are now under the
Flow
Flow may refer to:
Science and technology
* Fluid flow, the motion of a gas or liquid
* Flow (geomorphology), a type of mass wasting or slope movement in geomorphology
* Flow (mathematics), a group action of the real numbers on a set
* Flow (psych ...
branding. The company formerly held a 71% share in Cable Bahamas, before divesting of that holding in 2010.
History
Columbus entered the Curaçao retail market in January 2010 through the acquisition of Curaçao Cable TV NV, a fledgling start up that held video and internet concessions, but had yet to reach the commercial stage.
By the fall of 2010, a new fully digital video head end was constructed, providing Flow customers access to more than 250 video and audio channels by far the most comprehensive television service in Curaçao. In addition, Flow offers residential broadband internet packages ranging from an entry-level service of 5 Mbit/s up to 100 Mbit/s. In partnership with its sister company, Columbus Business Solutions, they also provide a range of corporate data services including data storage, disaster recovery, IP services, hosting and business continuity services.
The company was then officially acquired by
Cable & Wireless Communications, the parent company of another fellow telecommunications company in the
Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
, named
LIME. The cost of the acquisition was USD $1.85 Billion dollars.
The company has now become a fully owned entity of CWC.
FLOW
Flow may refer to:
Science and technology
* Fluid flow, the motion of a gas or liquid
* Flow (geomorphology), a type of mass wasting or slope movement in geomorphology
* Flow (mathematics), a group action of the real numbers on a set
* Flow (psych ...
has now become the consumer-facing brand for the new company across all of
CWC
CWC may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* California Writers Club
* Crime Writers of Canada
Businesses and organizations Businesses
* Central Warehousing Corporation, an Indian government-owned corporation
* Cable & Wireless Communications, a ...
's former
LIME. It offers quad-play services (i.e. mobile, fixed voice, fixed home broadband and television).
Management & Executive Team
*Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Brendan Paddick Brendan may refer to:
People
* Saint Brendan the Navigator (c. 484 – c. 577) was an Irish monastic saint.
* Saint Brendan of Birr (died 573), Abbot of Birr in Co. Offaly, contemporaneous with the above
* Brendan (given name), a masculine given na ...
*President and COO, Paul W. Scott
*
Chief Financial Officer
The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financ ...
, Maxwell Parsons, C.A.
See also
*
ARCOS-1
The Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) is a fiber optic submarine communications cable of 8,400 kilometers that extends between the United States, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Curaç ...
*
CFX (cable system) CFX may refer to:
*Central Florida Expressway Authority
* ANSYS CFX, a computation fluid dynamics program
*Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier
*AMD CrossFireX, a computer graphics multiprocessing technology
*Compact form factor, ...
*
Fibralink (cable system)
References
External links
*
Columbus NetworksCOLUMBUS COMMUNICATIONS EXPANDS OPERATIONS TO GRENADA
- (14 April 2008)
Columbus to run fibre-optic cable from Colombia to Jamaica
- Jamaica Observer (25, May 2007)
Flow gets nod on all-island(Jamaica) cable licence
- Jamaica Observer (01, April 2007)
Alcatel and Columbus Communications inaugurate FibraLink submarine network in Jamaica
- Press Release (5 April 2006)
- Trinidad and Tobago Guardian Newspaper (16 February 2006)
Alcatel to deploy a new submarine optical cable network to serve Jamaica
- Press Release (7 June 2005)
New World Network Completes Sale to Columbus Communications
- Press Release (12 September 2005)
Columbus Communications acquires New World Network
- (15 September 2005)
John Risley And Michael Lee-Chin — The Cable Guys
- Canadian Business Online (5 December 2005)
- ttgapers.com (11 May 2007)
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Cable television companies
Companies of Jamaica
Mass media companies of Trinidad and Tobago
Companies of Barbados