Digicel
has decided that Cloud Drives are ok for Regular folk too.
As of Sunday January 11th 2014, Digicel Group has now made their Cloud
Drive service Digicel
Space available as an App for their Google Android smartphone
customers as reported in the article “Digicel
launches data storage app”, published 11 January 2015, Nation News.
This
is actually the same Cloud Service they’d launched back in 2011 and about which
I’d written about in my blog article
entitled “Digicel
Cloud Backup Service and future Cloud-Based Services - V.S Naipaul's A House
for Mr Biswas”.
I
also described some of the future services that this Digicel cloud could offer,
such as Cloud Telephony and yes, Dropbox-like
Personal Cloud Services as per my Geezam blog
article entitled “Digicel's Cloud
Backup Services - A Deep Analysis”.
This,
folks, is Digicel
Space. But how I bumped into it is quite a story in
itself that’s worth telling in tweets!
Digicel Space across
the World – Tracking the roll-out in Tweets on Digicel
I
had actually spotted it in my Digicel
Jamaica Twitter feed on Monday December 22nd 2014.
My
interest piqued, I did a deep search of Twitter to determine the first instance
of Digicel
Space. To my surprise, Digicel Group had actually launched the
service first with Digicel St. Vincent and
the Grenadines as posted on the Digicel
SVG Twitter Feed on Friday December 19th 2014 as shown below.
An easy way to
prevent losing your files has arrived --> sign up for #DigicelSpace
http://t.co/t9KaB2e5sj
pic.twitter.com/2j0wV0vjzJ
—
Digicel SVG (@DigicelSVG) December
19, 2014
By
Monday December 22nd 2014, Digicel
Jamaica had the same advertisement for Digicel
Space on their Digicel Jamaica Twitter feed.
For free file
storage with #DigicelSpace
register here --> http://t.co/hAG1DeLu5r
pic.twitter.com/K92D9lqEk2
—
Digicel Jamaica (@Digicel_Jamaica) December
22, 2014
Digicel Samoa’s turn came up when it popped
up on Digicel Samoa's Twitter
Feed as well on Monday December 22nd 2014, as Digicel expanded
the service to all of the territories that they operate in.
Sign Up for
Digicel Space and 'Never lose a contact again!' #DigicelSpace
pic.twitter.com/GRNM92QcVM
—
Digicel Samoa (@OfficialDigicel) December
22, 2014
Digicel Nauru soon got in on the
action, with a similar advert posted on their Digicel Nauru Twitter Feed on the
same day Monday December 22nd 2014. Must have been quite a Monday
morning surprise!
Safely secure
your contacts & contents for FREE until January 2015 with Digicel
Space, visit a Digicel Space or... http://t.co/cBRERoB4Zx
—
Digicel Nauru (@Digicelnauru) December
23, 2014
Digicel Space - Cloud
Services finally reaches Jamaica in 2015, the Year of the Sheep
By
Tuesday December 23rd 2014, Digicel Group got in on the action,
tweeting the same Adverts as shown below.
For free file
storage with #DigicelSpace
register here --> http://t.co/0083qClaRK
pic.twitter.com/387VLp37tr
—
Digicel Group (@digicelgroup) December
23, 2014
By
now the Hashtag #DigicelSpace and the website http://www.register.digicelspace.com
was slowly becoming embedded in my memory. One user, Alejancro (@Russ_FTW), gave us a
bird's eye view of the prices for Digicel
Space Cloud service.
1.
JA$0/month - 1 GB (aka it's free)
2.
JA$200/month - 10GB
3.
JA$400/month - 15GB
4.
JA$800/month - 30GB
Digicel Space
rates:
1GB - Free
10GB- $200/month
15GB-
$400/month
30GB- $800/month pic.twitter.com/ZHd1nAm0k6
—
Alejancro (@Russ_FTW) December
29, 2014
It
finally came to Jamaica on Tuesday December 30th 2014 just in time
to ring in 2015, the Year of the Sheep as per this tweet on Digicel Jamaica Twitter Feed.
Never Lose
Important Files Again! Register here: http://t.co/u65dUPQu99
pic.twitter.com/CIQfkTGWo5
—
Digicel Jamaica (@Digicel_Jamaica) December
30, 2014
By
Monday January 5th 2015, Digicel
Cayman Islands got a chance to ride on the Digicel
Space Cloud as per Digicel Caymans Twitter Feed.
For free file
storage with #DigicelSpace
register here --> http://t.co/Vr5XPwLMiq
pic.twitter.com/j5VvnY2KnN
—
Digicel Cayman (@DigicelCayman) January
6, 2015
Digicel Barbados was the last to get
a chance to ride the cloud, with their taste of the rainbow coming on Monday
January 12th 2015 as per Digicel Barbados Twitter feed.
Find a safe,
convenient place for your photos, music files and much more with #DigicelSpace,
http://t.co/d7xVvRNC8e
pic.twitter.com/VI2Kswzusv
—
Digicel Barbados (@digicelbarbados) January
12, 2015
Strangely
enough there has been no other announcements on Twitter or Facebook pages for
any of Digicel's other Territories save for Digicel Fiji who got their Digicel
Space Cloud by Tuesday January 13th 2015 as
stated in the article “Digicel
Fiji introduces Digicel Space”, published Tuesday, 13/01/2015, Fijivillage. Also no Videos on any of
Digicel's YouTube Channels!
This
suggests that this is a limited time trial run and a full rollout of the Digicel
Space Cloud product is in the works. Ok, so now the
history lesson as told by Twitter is over, what is it like using Digicel
Space? I decided to test it out myself!
Digicel Space under the
Microscope - 1GB Free doesn’t even exist as a Thumb Drive hold way more
First,
you go to the Digicel Space website by going to the URL (Universal Resource
Locator) http://register.digicelspace.com in your computer browser. The below Login
Page should greet you.
Once
you click Login, you're greeted by a screen that says prompts you to use you
Mobile Number to login.
First,
use the drop down menu box and select your country.
Then
enter your Digicel cell phone number as your login, somewhat similar to Digicel
Free SMS Service
This
is of course if you already have a password and login. If not, you'll need to
create an account by clicking Create an Account. That action will bring you
this form below, which you have to fill out in order to set up your Digicel
Space account.
Once
completed and you click Accept, Digicel then sends you a four (4) digit
confirmation code via SMS (Short Messaging Service) or Text message on your
Digicel cellphone which you then enter into the field below to verify your
identity.
You
then get the following confirmation message and your prompted to also verify
your email and access your Digicel Space using your phone number 1876XXXXXXX and the
login that you created.
Once
you login to the Digicel Space Cloud Drive, you'll be prompted
to enter your email so that Digicel can send you important messages, most
likely the email equivalent of all those text messages they send out each day.
You
also get a link in the email that allows you to download software that creates
a synched folder similar to Dropbox that you
can drag and drop your files to store them in the Digicel
Space Cloud.
You are then prompted to accept the Terms and Conditions of Service, which you can sit and read at your leisure. I just basically clicked Accept.
Digicel Space free 1GB
too small – Still Room for improvement as Digicel Space expands
At
this point you're inside of your very own Digicel
Space free 1GB account. I didn't have anything to
upload that could fill the space, but it appears well organized and planned. I especially
like the fact that it readily prompts you to get the Digicel Space App, which no doubt will synch your files across
multiple devices.
Still,
on size alone, this doesn’t hold up well against as Dropbox, which gives you 5GB free Cloud
Storage, which I've expanded to 18 GB by sending out requests to as many emails
as I could. Google Drive is even
more generous, with 15GB free as noted in my Geezam
blog article entitled “Google Drive,
the Dropbox Clone, now ups the Ante to 15GB of free Storage during Google I/O”.
But
by far the most generous is Microsoft
OneDrive, which offers the same 15 GB of Free Cloud Drive Storage but upps
the ante to a whopping 1TB is you have a Office 360 subscription as reported in
my blog article
entitled “Microsoft
rewards OneDrive users with 15GB Free Storage - How Office 365 users can get
1TB Free Storage as they Chase Google Drive”.
So
will school children use this?
Yes,
if they can't afford a thumb drive. But they can use any of the above free
Cloud Drive products which offer more free Storage in the Cloud and have more
features than just synching across devices i.e. Tablet, smartphone.
A
more detailed article on its usage is coming on the Geezam blog. Until then don’t
lose your files! Store them in Digicel
Space Cloud Drive!
Here's
the link:
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