Motorola Xoom vs the Apple iPad 2 - Elizabeth Taylor, All's Well that Ends Well

Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she has bestowed no favours.

La Rochefoucauld, Maxima, 391

The appearance of the Motorola Xoom!

Finally! A tribute worthy to be dedicated to the legendary silver screen Goddess and Cleopatra, worthy of Harper’s Bazaar and the movie Cleopatra (1963) as spoken of in the obituary in the article “Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79; legendary actress”, published March 23, 2011, 9:05 p.m. by Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times. She passed in the Afterlife on Wednesday March 23^rd 2011 AD.

To her Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27 1932 AD - March 23, 2011 AD), I wish to dedicate this article, as like her, the Motorola Xoom has great specs. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor  shadow that graced many a Broadway and illuminated countless Silver Screen movies will have Broadways ephemeral lights dimmed in her honour this Friday March 25^th 2011 AD as stated in the article “Broadway to dim lights for Elizabeth Taylor” , published Thursday March 24, 2011 7:37pm EDT, Reuters. .

With the gift of my blog article as tribute upon her Egyptian Funeral pyre, may the God Anubis, Guardian of the Underworld welcome you on your journey to Hades, with the fickle feline demi-god Bastet for companionship.

But the show must go on, Broadway Style. The much advertised, much glorified as the ultimate Tablet since the Days of the Egyptians. Also much pilloried in my blog article entitled “Apple iPad, PC Makers and Battery Life - Lost in Space and the AppleByte” for its poor battery life and lack of a Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) option.

Despite its Google Android OS 3.0 aka Honeycomb Threads, its hefty price tag of US$600 on a two (2) year contract with US$800 for the privilege of outright purchase as stated in the article “Verizon: Xoom Tablet to cost US$800, or US$600 with two-year contract”, published Tuesday February 22 2011 by Ben Patterson, Technology Blogger, Yahoo News made it like one of the Untouchables in the Indian Caste system.

For a Tablet? Really Motorola!?

More salt was rubbed into the wound when Motorola decided to do a recall of the Tablet so as to enable the LTE (Long Term Evolution) chipsets in the Tablet, rumoured to take six (6) day to complete and return to the owner as stated in the article “Xoom 4G Upgrade could take more than Six Days”, published Friday February 25th 2011, by PCWorld via Yahoo News.

Really Motorola? Really!!!

Since February 2011, Motorola, after getting a beating for trying to spring a fast one on the Apple iPad 2 by launching a day before Apple’s launch on Friday February 11^th 2011AD, has come to their senses.

They at least appear to be following the bad press and taking their advice in their chase after the white whale called the Apple iPad 2.

Motorola have made good by launching a Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) version for US$599 as stated in the article “Wi-Fi Motorola Xoom matches the iPad2 - US$599 at several Retailers”, published Wednesday February 16 2011 by Digital Trends via Yahoo News.

They have also improved their Distribution Network, with Amazon, Best Buy, CostCo, Staples, Walmart, RadioShack and Sams’s Club locations being in on the deal as stated in the article “Hard Sell for Motorola's Xoom Wi-Fi Tablet”, published March 16, 2011, 8:11am PT 12 By Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM . Defiantly a copy of Apple Inc!

Coupled with a worldwide Developer push for the Honeycomb Tablet, the next six (6) months will be interesting. All bets are on Google Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb to repeat the victory of its sister Google Android 2.2 aka Froyo, now crowing history as documented in the article “Android is no. 1 OS, but Apple, RIM rule devices”, published March 4, 2011 9:08 AM PST by Lance Whitney, Google Android - CNET News and supported by the article “Android pulls ahead in smartphone Race, Report says”, published March 3, 2011, 6:44 PM By NICK BILTON, NY Times.

Improve the battery life to match the Apple iPad 2 continuing romp past the 12.6 hour goalpost on full HD Video usage would be the ultimate finish touch, as 9.6 hours is just not cutting it as reported in the article “CNET tests Tablet Web speed, battery life”, published March 6, 2011 11:59 AM PST by Eric Franklin, Crave - CNET News. Ditto too on the weight, which is a bit too heavy for on the go computing.  

Truly, All's Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare Style!

GOJ and Project JosephOS Requiem - Open Source Linux Penguin in Happy Feet

The Government of the United States of America is going to soon be run on Google. So intoned the Obama Administration when they awarded Google a US$6.7 billion contract to replace email and documents with their Cloud-based solution powered in partnership with Unisys as stated in the article “Google scores big federal Government contract”, published December 2, 2010 9:07 AM PST by Lance Whitney, CNET News- Digital Media.

The US Government on Google Docs, Google Mail (Gmail) and possibly PC and Cr-48 sporting their Cloud-Based OS Google Chrome OS to run the General Services Administration (GSA) as explained in detail in my blog article entitled “Google Chrome Press Event - Naked Gun 33 and a Third The Final Insult”.

Strangely enough, the Government of Jamaica is STILL being tied down by Microsoft Corp  Microsoft, recently having to fork out over JA$600 million as stated in the article “Gov't to pay JA$600 million to renew software licenses”, published Wednesday, February 16, 2011, The Jamaica Observer.

Of that amount, US$3.3 million (JA$283 million) being earmarked to pay Microsoft for three (3) years of unauthorized software usage in its various Government Agencies! That’s nowhere near the money that is owed to the Government of Jamaica by way of unpaid Traffic Tickets for violations for the Road Traffic Act as stated in the article “New Ticketing System to collect billions in unpaid fines”, published Friday, February 11^th 2011 20:41 by JIS News!

Amusingly, I had argued for the adoption of Open Source by the Government of Jamaica in a project dubbed Project JosephOS (Keisha Joseph’s Open Source Initiative) which was based on an argument with the namesake 20-something.

The name is coined from the fact that Josephus, a scribe who lived in the time of Jesus, took it on himself to find better methods of preserving the ancient writing of the Bible by placing them in layers of Leather.

Thus the ten (10) year cycle of rewriting and transcribing manuscripts written in Hebrew was discontinued, as leather made the Scrolls last longer.

Other Pharisees improved on this method with metal bracings, smaller script and a metal case in which to store said manuscripts. This is why Jews have the storage method that they use today to store their manuscripts in the synagogue!

This event occurred while in my Sophomore Year at UWI reading for my Degree in Electronics and Chemistry in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences. So amused was I by the argument, that I made a basic research note summarizing and distilling her ideas in my blog article entitled “Project JosephOS - Centralized Database of all Government Documents”.

I have begun tracking the Development of Open Source ever since, having seen Open Source when I was younger at UTECH while reading for my Diploma in Electronics and Telecoms in the Department of Engineering. Now it is more like Windows in its interface, something most welcome to those of us non-techie types who like the feel of a familiar Windows environment.

Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, Minister of Justice, could have certainly used the help of such as Database, as it would make tracking emails and documents a snap. Ditto for the rest of Government of Jamaica Agencies!

This is a signpost in American history that ironically in that blog article was a byline. But it heralds something greater: Open Source is now being endorsed by the White House.

Long proven itself on Enterprise Servers as stated in the article “Big Business backs Linux”, published December 1, 2010, 12:36pm PST by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet - Linux and Open Source, it is now going mainstream to regular users.

This mainly thanks to Dell, Google and now HP. Dell took the first bold step on Tuesday March 27^th 2007 when the made public the findings of a survey that they conducted on whether or not users wished to have Linux pre-loaded on their PC’s.

The articles entitled  “Dell Promises Linux on Desktop and Laptop PC's”, published Friday Mar 30, 2007 12:43 AM ET by Barry Levine, News Factor and “Linux and Dell shut the Windows?” published Saturday March 31, 2007 by Ross Sheila, Staff Reporter, The Jamaica Gleaner provided proof of this historic occasion.

Of the one hundred thousand (100,000) respondents who participated in the IdeaStorm survey, an astounding 70% resoundingly said yes to Canonical’s Ubuntu as their choice of Linux Distribution as an alternative to Windows. As usual, the devil is in the details. Specifically, the participants in the survey wish to have:

1)     Ubuntu Linux Distribution option bundled with Dell’s Line of PC’s and Laptops

2)     Open Source software bundled with the OS that were compatible alternatives to those found on Windows machines

3)     Hardware Drivers compatible with Ubuntu under the GNU General Public License under which Linux Distributions operate

The last one is somewhat of a sticking point in the arrangement brokered by Dell and Canonical, the commercial distributor of Ubuntu but over time is slowly being ironed out as the No. 1 PC maker showed that it no longer lives under the shadow of Microsoft.

Truly, 2007, the Year of the Apple iPhone and the Amazon Kindle, was also the year of the silent revolution for the cute little Tuxedo Penguin.

Since then, the Tablet Wars have started in earnest. First with the appearance of the Samsung Galaxy Tablet as stated in my blog article entitled “Samsung Galaxy and the Galaxy of Tablet and Phones - Lucky Charms for London Olympics 2012”.

Now with the debut of the Motorola Xoom on Thursday February 10^th 2011 as stated in the article “Verizon to start selling iPhone on Feb. 10”, published January 11, 2011, Yahoo News. Article on this is coming soon on my Geezam Blog!

Now HP, the No. 2 PC maker has done one better than Dell. After the Debut of their HP TouchPad Tablet, HP Pre3 and HP Veer smartphones revolving about their WebOS Ecosystems as stated in my Geezam Blog article entitled “HP and the TouchPad - Release the WebOS and the Developers will Smile”, that is!

Like Dell, they have decided to give Open Source to the Masses. However, unlike Dell, it is their own Linux Distribution, specifically WebOS.

Apparently, HP is following in the footsteps of Apple.  HP is creating their own ecosystem of products based around WebOS as stated in the article “HP: the Linux Desktop Company”, published March 9, 2011, 8:25am PST, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Linux and Open Source, ZDNet.

Inheritance from their purchase of Palm as stated in the article “HP buying Palm for US$1.2 billion”, published April 28, 2010 1:14 PM PDT by Erica Egg, CNET News - Circuit Breaker and confirmed by the article “HP to Buy Palm for US$1.2 billion”, published Wednesday, April 28, 2010 01:43 PM PDT by Nancy Goring, IDG News Service, PCWorld.

Siblings in every sense of the word! Related by more than company name as suggested in the article “Mobile is now a Game of Ecosystems, Not Devices”, published February 17, 2011, 5:30pm By Naveen Tewari, GigaOM.

Most people who use the more user-friendly versions of Linux such as Knoppix and Fedora are very much aware of the benefits of this Linux Distributions: safer web surfing, virus-free, makes older PC hardware work faster as it is light on resources.

Most people, however, are blissfully unaware of its virus-killing powers as stated in the article “Why you need to Have a Linux LiveCD”, published February 11, 2011 6:31 pm by Katherine Noyes, PCWorld.

You can boot a Windows PC using a bootable CD mounted via the DVD/CD ROM drive and literally comb through the Hard drive and delete the viruses on the fly. I use this a lot at Amazing PC to remove viruses on Thumb Drives, Laptops and Computers instead of a virus scan, which really, can only alert you of a virus but cannot remove them, merely placing them in quarantine.

It is also great for backing up Data before reinstalling the Windows OS. Eventually, more driver support is needed for Hardware interoperability for Linux Distributions.

Notable examples abound.

Microsoft’s Donation of three (3) key Drivers to the Linux Foundation for the development of the Linux Source Code under the GNU General Public License “Microsoft's Linux contribution: Thank Novell?”, published July 21, 2009 10:39 AM PDT by Ina Fried, Beyond Binary - CNET News in 2009.

Wireless Equipment maker Broadcom donated Open Source Drivers for its Wireless Equipment hardware as stated in the article “Linux Wi-Fi Gets Easier with New Broadloom Driver”, published Fri Sep 10, 2:55 pm ET by Katherine Noyes, PCWorld.

So with coming support, the Government of Jamaica’s only excuse against Linux Distributions is the lack of Hardware Driver Support. If the Government of Jamaica was innovative enough to copy the White House and go Alternative Energy to reduce their JA$10 billion Electricity Bill as  stated in the Editorial in The Jamaica Gleaner entitled “Government to start saving energy”, published Sunday February 13, 2011, The Jamaica Gleaner, then the adoption of Open Source should be a natural follow-on, Cricket Style!

Especially as the new Wireless Cloud-Based Handheld Wireless Traffic Ticketing System and the Automated Electronic Ticketing System initiative to collect over JA$3 billion in unpaid Traffic Fines as stated in my blog article entitled “Motorists, NRSC and the New Traffic Ticket System - Nowhere to Run” is to come on stream!

The Use of an Open Source Linux Distribution would even make the Database as described by Prime Minister Bruce Golding more secure, drawing upon the strength of Linux and his Penguin friends.

Project JosephOS for the Government of Jamaica Ministries and Governmental Agencies anyone?

AT&T-T-Mobile and Digicel-CLARO Comparisons - Alice Through the Looking Glass The Day After

Just for a handful of silver he left us,

Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

R. Browning, The Lost Leader

It seems Americans are still in shock, after the betrayal of the Public Trust. Telecom Provider AT&T, the No. 1 Telecom Provider (American Journalists, I disagree on the No. 2 billing!!) bought Telecom Provider T-Mobile, stepchild of German Telecom giant Deutsche Telecom AG for roughly US$39 billion pieces of silver.

Daggers to the heart as you may peruse my blog article on the subject entitled “AT&T buys T-Mobile - Prince of Persia in A Series of Unfortunate Events”. Not a rumour, it is very true.

So it is not surprising that No. 3 Telecom Provider Sprint struck back with a one-two combo punch of their own by announcing a very deep integration of their Switched Voice Network with Google Voice, effectively making Telecom Provider Sprint phone numbers the Google Voice number.

Like Alice Through the Looking Glass (TV 1998), Google must now go into a parallel dimension in the Telecom Landscape [Telecom Provider T-Mobile] in order to become King. This as Telecom Provider AT&T will surely undo all that the good that Google has done.

So says the articles “Sprint dials up Google Voice for all subscribers”, published March 21, 2011 5:00 AM PDT by Jessica Dolcourt, Dialed In - CNET News and supported by the article “Google voice goes Mainstream with Sprint Integration”, published March 21, 2011, 5:00am PT By Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM. Extra details are gleaned from the article “Sprint adds Google Voice to Everything”, published March 21, 2011 11.34am EST by Sascha Segan, PCMagazine.

Good at this point to point out that Telecom Provider T-Mobile was the strong Tower for Google and their entry in to the Handset game. Google’s debut of the HTC G1, the Google Android powered smartphone was on Telecom Provider T-Mobile. So too was the MyTouch 3G, also powered by Google Android!

Telecom Provider T-Mobile has been the sole supported supporter of everything Google and Google Android, both in terms of Google Apps, Google Marketplace and even the Google Nexus 1, Google entry into the handset game, which debut on Telecom Provider T-Mobile.

Thus the Telecom Provider Sprint deep integration of Google Voice can be seen as a counter-attack after widespread fears of the Ugly Spectre of monopoly rule the minds of many Americans today. The news of the acquisition announced on Sunday March 20^th 2011 strikes many as mind-numbingly cold.

Telecom Provider AT&T claims that it would benefit LTE expansion as stated in the article “AT&T: Buying T-Mobile speeds up LTE shift in U.S”, published March 21, 2011 6:33 AM PDT by Stephen Shankland, CNET News – DeepTech, playing upon the desires of the US Government desirous of Universal Wireless Broadband access by 2015AD.

Sinister too, how this deal seems to neatly solve the so-called Spectrum crisis, which really does not exist as sniffed out by newshound Stacey Higginbottom of GigaOM in the article “AT&T to buy T-Mobile for US$39 Billion. Here is why”, published March 20, 2011, 1:34pm PT by Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM.

The demand for Broadband should go soft in a Recession Economy, despite the projected statistics of Cisco as stated in the article “Cisco predicts wireless-data explosion”, published February 9, 2010 5:00 AM PST by Marguerite Reardon, CNET News - Signal Strength. No matter how addicted people appear to be to Zynga’s Farmville and CityVille!

So what Spectrum crisis was there? Upon acquisition of Telecom Provider T-Mobile, due to the difference of frequencies, Chip and Golding Codes of Telecom Provider AT&T WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiplexing) powered 3G Network, changes are inevitable.

Users of Telecom Provider T-Mobile’s HSDPA (3G) and HSDPA+, a bridging technology which Telecom Provider T-Mobile palms off as 4G, will have to be scrapped due to differences in their 3G Technology Chip Codes and Golding Codes that would make it inoperable with Telecom Provider AT&T 3G. The Telecom Provider T-Mobile Spectrum may be reused for deployment of LTE.

To the victor go the Spectrum spoils!!!

As for Regulatory hurdles, albeit they would be a Monopoly able to dictate pricing of handsets, the US Government Regulators cannot resist the argument of Telecom Provider AT&T solving the so-called Spectrum crisis in one fell swoop, thereby improving Network coverage and potentially increasing access to Wireless Broadband via LTE.

 I hate to admit it, but this deal appears solid and legit, through and through, never mind the acrid pungent smell of “monopoly”, despite the simple arguments expressed by CNET News Reporter Marguerite Reardon in the article “AT&T's T-Mobile Deal - Regulatory Hurdles Ahead”, published March 20, 2011 6:02 PM PDT by Marguerite Reardon, CNET News - Signal Strength.

So the Telecom Provider Sprint – Google Voice deal signals a shift in power within Persia [Telecoms Providers], as Google Voice and Telecom Provider AT&T were never friends, having tangled with them before, having blocked Google Voice on their Network as stated in the article “AT&T denies squelching Google Voice for iPhone”, published August 21, 2009 2:34 PM PDT by Tom Krazit, CNET News - Apple.

Truly, VoIP apps from Skype and Fring and Google Voice, a hybrid of Switched voice Network Call Routing and VoIP are the NKOTB (New Kids on the Block) that threaten the International Calling Cash cow of Telecom Provider AT&T as confirmed by the analysis of Christopher Ryan of GigaOM in his article “What AT&T has to fear from Google Voice”, published August 20, 2009, 9:00am PT By Christopher Ryan, GigaOM

Dear Reader, remember it was the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) that forced Apple Inc to approve Google Voice and Telecom Provider AT&T to accept Google Voice. Apps from Google are already in Telecom Provider AT&T’s with most of the functionality of their Android smartphones stripped.

Now that Telecom Provider AT&T empire has grown bigger, they may seek to counter-attack Google’s encroachment on their territory. This spells doom and gloom for Silicon Valley and innovation, which is an anathema to money-making Telecom Provider AT&T. Hence the coincidental announcement of the hastily arranged Telecom Provider Sprint – Google marriage!

Their market size may mean that they can increase the cost of the termination of International Calls on their Network. This is how we Jamaicans come in to the picture.

So just like the Digicel Group and America Movil swap of CLARO Jamaica for Digicel El Salvador and Honduras assets. This being of course the deal that Telecom Provider AT&T copied and took their cues. The customer will not benefit in the long run, as most of the benefits are in hands of the Telecom Providers.

Thus all the above concerns about the Telecom Provider AT&T - Telecom Provider T-Mobile buy-out applies to the Digicel Group and America Movil swap.

Digicel Group will most certainly also, as the biggest GSM Voice Network, ponder the expansion of Telecom Provider CLARO LTE Network, opting to go the WiMaX (IEEE802.16d, e) Route.

Or they may see Telecom Provider CLARO as an opportunity to expand their market dominance by offering choice between two (2) sibling Wireless Broadband Protocols, with an upgrade in speed of Telecom Provider CLARO’s 3G Network to match their WiMaX 4G Broadband Network as possible plus to customers!!!

Already here in Jamaica, Telecom Provider LIME is asking the FTC (Fair Trading Commission) and the OUR (Office of Utilities Regulation) to investigate the deal as stated in the article “LIME wants OUR, FTC to assess Digicel Claro Deal”, published Sunday, March 20, 2011, The Jamaica Observer.

June 2011 is three (3) months away as the mushroom cloud rises up on this The Day After (TV 1983).

AT&T buys T-Mobile - Prince of Persia in A Series of Unfortunate Events

Woe to the Vanquished

(Vae victis!)

Plateus, Pseudolus

Woe indeed! Telecom Provider AT&T, the No. 1 Telecoms Provider in the United States of America (by a nose!) has just announced their own copycat deal akin to the Digicel Group and America Movil swap of CLARO Jamaica for Digicel El Salvador and Honduras respectively.

Thus, my blog article on the subject entitled “Digicel buys CLARO Jamaica - Jumanji Exchange is no Robbery” deserves a second look. This as the next line will look so similar that you may urinate in your pants as you read - or drop your Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tablet in shock!

That is, dear reader, IF you consume you news via a Tablet as suggested succinctly in my blog article entitled “Apple iPad 2 and Newspapers - Titan A.E.”.

Telecom Provider AT&T, as of Sunday March 20^th 2011, have purchased Telecom Provider T-Mobile, an outfit of German Telecom giant Deutsche Telecom AG for roughly US$39 billion pieces of silver. Effectively, like America Movil  with their subsidiary CLARO Jamaica, Deutsche Telecom AG has sold out Telecom Provider T-Mobile.

This, also puts Telecom Provider AT&T on the path towards Monopoly as opined by Darron Thomas, a Guest Columnist in the Sunday March 13^th 2011 edition of The Sunday Gleaner in an article entitled “Public Affairs - Is Digicel on the Mad March to Monopoly?”, published Sunday March 13, 2011 by Darron Thomas, Guest Columnist, The Sunday Gleaner.

Possibly another opinion piece from Darron Thomas, Lecturer in the School of Business Administration at the University Of Technology to liven up the debate now roaring hot this Sunday March 20^th 2011!!

Of the article listed below that reported this just breaking news story, pick you favourites; “AT&T to acquire T-Mobile USA for US$39 billion”, published March 20, 2011 12:03 PM PDT by Steven Musil, Wireless - CNET News or “AT&T acquires T-Mobile, Rockets up to more than 130 million U.S. Users”, published March 20, 2011 03.54pm EST By David Murphy, PCMagazine.

Facts to ponder: Telecom Provider AT&T has now surpassed Telecom Provider Verizon to be the number one Telecom Provider in the US of A with one hundred and thirty million (130,000,000) subscribers.

This is a combination of Telecom Provider AT&T ninety five million, four hundred thousand (95,400,000) customers and Telecom Provider T-Mobile thirty four million (34,000,000) customers!

By comparison, Telecom Provider Verizon only has ninety four million (94,000,000) customers and is thus relegated to a very distant Second fiddle in the now saturated American Telecom Market!

Telecom Provider Verizon also did well in the Last Quarter of 2010, despite no Apple iPad and no Apple iPhone and lackluster showing in the Wireless side of the Telecom Market as stated in the article “Verizon's Q4 Results fall short as Wireless Business Surges”, published January 25, 2011 01.10pm EST by Sara Yin, PCMagazine.

Both Telecom Provider AT&T and Telecom Provider Verizon carry the Apple iPhone 4 and the Apple iPad as stated in my blog article entitled “Apple iPad 2 and PC future - Doomsday in the Battlefield”.

And like the Digicel Group and America Movil horse trading or serf swapping, Tsarist Russia style, being played out in Jamaica, this deal is subject to regulatory approval and may not be solid news until June 2011.

More articles abound, but these are mainly opinion pieces in the same vein as the comments made by Senator Phillip Paulwell, Opposition Minister on ICT and Telecoms in The Sunday Gleaner article entitled “Not good for Telecoms Market - Digicel-CLARO deal could hurt consumers, says Opposition”, published Sunday March 13, 2011, The Daily Gleaner. That is, the deal is going to create a monopoly, it’s bad for competition, customers will suffer, blah, blah, blah….

Customers are definitely going to get a bad deal (like d-uuh!) as choice as it relates to phones may be curtailed with only one (1) major GSM Network. Ditto for Network Equipment Suppliers such as Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia-Siemens and Ericsson, who have now been put in an indefinite holding pattern as the management mulls over the as-yet legitimized deal.

This is akin to what is also happening in Jamaica, especially as it relates to LTE (Long Term Evolution) build out by Telecom Provider CLARO at Duncans, Trelawny as stated in my blog article entitled “LIME vs Digicel - The Truth About Charlie”.

As of the time of writing this blog article, contractors in Jamaica who are still in the process of upgrading, have had all of their works put in an indefinite holding pattern by the new owners, Digicel Group, pending an audit and review of operations.

Possibly the same for the Telecom Equipment Suppliers and Handset Makers (Apple included!!), now also placed in a holding pattern, must now ponder their fate with this now lumbering Telecom’s Giant in a increasingly shrinking saturated smartphone market.

Telecom Provider Sprint has now been set a US$39 billion dollar hill to climb, should the deal not get the regulator approval by the Department of Justice in the US, albeit it is unlikely to fail, due to the ongoing spectrum crisis, which this merger perfectly solves.

Again comparisons to the Digicel Group and America Movil Debt and Equity Deal, spectrum licenses for T1, Microwave Backhaul and Data and Mobile Voice services would have changed hands.

Telecom Provider AT&T demand for spectrum would be satiated as they could reuse Telecom Provider T-Mobile’s HSDPA+ (High Speed Downlink Packet) spectrum allocations to expand their LTE Network to Telecom Provider Sprint customers, assuming similar frequerncies and T1 allocations.

Some say the spectrum crisis is engineered and this deal neatly falls into the cracks created by this argument of a lack of spectrum, the so called “spectrum crisis”. This so as to grease the palms of Government Regulators to pass this deal legit, as Stacey Higginbottom of GigaOM  slyly suggests in the article “AT&T to buy T-Mobile for US$39 Billion. Here is why”, published March 20, 2011, 1:34pm PT by Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM .

Spectrum crisis, real or imagined as reported in the article “FCC crunches numbers on Spectrum crisis”, published October 25, 2010 2:37 PM PDT by Marguerite Reardon, CNET News - Signal Strength, is over – at least for Telecom Provider AT&T.

FCC (Federal Communication Commission) Chairman Julius Genachowski dream of a coast-to-coast Broadband coverage in the next ten (10) years using “White” Space Frequencies as suggested in my blog article entitled “Telecoms and White Spaces - A Man for All Seasons and the Big Bang Theory”, however, is not dead.

Small Telecom Providers still want the crumbs that fall from the tables of the Persians [Major Telecom Providers] and are actively lobbying for the spectrum-license free allocation of the Broadcasters “White” Space Spectrum to proceed. Plus the Obama Administration is gunning for it, prior to Telecom Provider AT&T multi-billion dollar deal!

Certainly, the money-making Telecom Provider AT&T will now have more control over the apps market with its broader market reach. Silicon Valley titan Google would especially be under pressure to comply with its wishes, a possible leash being placed on the aggressive pitbull’s that was making Telecom Provider AT&T appear to be a “dumb pipe”.

All obvious as I, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Times (2010) Style, in Jamaica, survey what the vassals of the Persian Army [Telecom Provider AT&T ] have done after plundering the sacred Temples of Alimut [Telecom Provider T-Mobile].

As if they have not become harlot themselves with enough women and wives [acquisitions, deals and services] to satisfy at least forty (40) men! ShopAlerts and M2M (Machine-to-Machine) Services are set to blossom like poppies in the Second Quarter of 2011 for Telecom Provider AT&T as stated in my blog article entitled “LIME's fortunes after Digicel-CLARO - Master and Commander Garfield Sinclair”.

What should be the concern for Jamaicans in Jamaica? Higher International Calling Rates is one possible outcome, as Telecom Provider AT&T may seek to enforce registered VoIP Calling via Google Voice as well as any other VoIP application, such as Skype.

Google Voice integrated into Gmail currently allows free calling from Jamaica to the USA and Canada as noted in my blog article entitled “Google and Google Voice - The World is Not Enough”.

This would act as a double pressure to ensure that MNP (Mobile Number Portability) is achieved in Jamaica between Telecom Provider Digicel and Telecom Provider LIME. Elimination unregistered and anonymous International Calling would be key i.e. Telecom Provider AT&T would be able to ascertain WHO the phone belongs. Pretty handy, should we have another case of “Dudus” and wiretap evidence!

Again, as with the Digicel Group and America Movil deal on Friday March 11^th 2011,  A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) has conspired to create market dominance to the detriment of the customer and massive profits for Telecom Provider AT&T as suggested in the article “In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses”, published March 20, 2011, 1:53pm PT By Om Malik, GigaOM.

How will this play out? Stick around till June 2011 to find out!!

Japan, Jamaica's OUR and Net Metering - When Disaster Strikes Don't Hold It Against Me

Today, Saturday March 19^th 2011 is the night of a Super moon as stated in the article “Super full Moon to Shine on Saturday”, published Friday March 18, 2011 9:23 pm ET, Associated Press, when the moon is at its closest, its gravitational tug at its strongest and it looks so large in the sky, you could push a stick through it and make it into a gigantic lollipop.

I haven’t written an article since Wednesday March 16^th 2011, as I am still taking in the odd Media reporting of news relating to Japanese triple-tragedy of an Earthquake, ensuing Tsunami and Nuclear accident worse than Chernobyl as described in my Geezam Blog article entitled “Japan Nuclear Reactor Meltdown is the Asian Tiger Chernobyl” and the gradually deteriorating situation in Libya.

Both have me shaken up badly, but the Media seems to be ignoring Japan, as apparently the lack of sensationalism associated with disasters is apparently lacking. This, as Japanese people, despite the tragedy, are showing the discipline and breeding of their much coveted First World Status, and are NOT running around looting but hidden in shelters, resolute.

This even as people fear to venture out on the streets as stated in the article “As death toll mounts, nuclear scare widens evacuation”, published March 12, 2011 12:31 PM PST by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, Health Tech - CNET News.

Tokyo is now a ghost town – or at least empty like Sunday Morning, with people in masks and walking around with hastily purchased Geiger Counters as stated in the article “Thriving Metropolis or Ghost Town? Crisis Transforms Tokyo”, published March 16 2011 by Jason Szep, Reuters.

Japan fears the invisible poison of Radiation, with the older folk having replays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from WWII in their minds. A Timeline of the Fukushima nuclear accidents helps to put the week’s events into perspective.

I have stopped watching American-centric TV, focusing mainly on reading internet articles and video snippets from Reuters, Associated Press, BBC News, with CNET News and Yahoo! News as news aggregators of choice to track these stories.

Firstly, Japan and its people…...

The death toll has surpassed ten thousand (10,000) and two hundred and twenty one thousand (210,000 ) evacuated from a 12.5 km “hotzone” around Okuma since Sunday March 13^th 2011 as stated in the article “Japan Quake death toll expected to top 10,000”, published March 13, 2011 7:00 PM PDT by Steven Musil, CNET News - Business Tech.

Please note: the Nuclear Reactor that blew its top is Fukushima Dai-ichi (“Number 1” in Japanese) Nuclear Power Plant, 270km (170miles) North East of Tokyo City in Okuma due to a failure of the Cooling System as described in my Geezam Blog article entitled “Japan Nuclear Reactor Meltdown is the Asian Tiger Chernobyl”. It was run by Tokyo Power Electric Co. The Reactors were built by General Electric. Neat facts in a line!

Strangely, heard or saw no news of Japanese robots being used in the rescue of cooling down efforts. Even more ironic, the Japanese had to rent robots from American company iRobot to assist them with their cooling down efforts as mentioned in the article “Where are the Robots' in Japan’s Nuclear crisis”, published March 19, 2011 4:28 PM PDT by Tim Hornyak, Crave - CNET News.

Apparently their show of robotic prowess is merely research and only for display, but the Government of Japan, like the American Government under George W. Bush, did not take Science and Technology seriously enough to encourage their development in their use at Nuclear Power Plant.

Not surprisingly, safety issues were paid a blind eye by Japanese Government Safety inspectors in a culture riddled with corruption akin to their Western counterparts as stated in the article “Bungling, cover-ups define Japanese Nuclear Power”, published Thursday March 17 2011, Associated Press.

Loved ones can get in touch with relatives in Japan, as the Internet withstood the Earthquake, with no fiber optic cables being broken as stated in the article “Despite quake, Japan's Net connections strong”,, published March 12, 2011 3:50 PM PST by Arik Hesseldahl, CNET News - Business Tech.

Already, there is report of Radioactive Nucleotides, possibly via Rain or wind, reaching California as stated in the article “Traces of radiation surface in California”, published Saturday, March 19, 2011, The Jamaica Observer via the Associated Press.

Thus fears of Radioactive fallout reaching mainland US of A as stated in the article “In Japan, damaged nuclear plants create fears of radioactive threat”, published Saturday, March 12, 2011; 6:58 PM By Andrew Higgins, Washington Post Foreign Service were not Media imagination run amok after all!!

So the Caribbean may soon be getting some showers of the Blessed Radioactive Rain. Glow-in-the-dark looks good on you and may be the new fashion trend this Summer!!

Not to mention the more serious issue of possible long-term contamination of our vegetables and other food items imported from the Far East.

Products such as Rice and Wheat as is the case in Japan with radio nucleotides in their Veggies and dairy products as stated in the article “Japan cites radiation in milk, spinach near plant”, published Saturday March 19 2011 By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Yahoo News via Associated Press.

Wafted across the ocean as to arrive in Jamaica and the Caribbean as early as Wednesday March 23^rd 2011!

Now where it hurts us gadget lovers and technology types the most: Consumer Electronics!

The Japan ‘quake means that, unless you had done like Apple Inc and pre-ordered your supply of LCD Screens, Flash Memory and other components months in advance, you will be affected by the quake as stated in the article “How quake disrupting supply of batteries, LCD displays”, published March 16, 2011 4:56 PM PDT by Arik Hesseldahl, CNET News - Business Tech.

Ditto for Flash Memory used to make MacBook Pros and MacBook Air’s as stated in the article “Japan quake may hit flash memory chip supply”, published March 11, 2011 1:47 PM PST by Brooke Crothers, NanoTech - CNET News.

For the sake of accuracy, Apple Inc had secured a large multi billion dollar component pre-order contract with Samsung, who are based in South Korea months prior as stated in the article “Apple securing US$7.8 billion worth of Samsung displays, memory”, published February 14, 2011 10:03 AM PST by Erica Ogg, Circuit Breaker - CNET News. So your Apple iPad and Apple iPhone 5 are still coming on schedule come June 2011.

Interestingly, as Japan vows to rebuild after the 9.0 shaker that was worse than Kobe (1995) as stated in the article “A week after quake, Japan's leaders vow to rebuild”, published Saturday, March 19, 2011, The Jamaica Observer via the Associated Press in Jamaica, the conversation has now swung around to diversifying not only Jamaica’s Energy Sources, but opening up the debate for Net-Metering as stated in the article “Want to sell light back to JPS?”, published Friday, March 18, 2011, The Jamaica Observer.

Not sure if all this talk of Alternative Energy sources is a result of the Japan Nuclear Disaster, now starting to look like Chernobyl on June 2^nd 1986, when Reactor No. 4 blew its top and irradiated 100km radius of Ukraine in the then USSR!

Or maybe, it’s because of a previous blog article I had written on the subject entitled “Alternative Energy and Residential Solar Power - The Social Network” and sent out via email. Whoever or whatever the source of this sudden appreciation by JPS Co and the OUR for Net Metering, its coincidental timing is great.

Competition in the Power Sector is needed not only to drive prices down, but to offer alternative off-the-grid money earning potential to encourage homeowners to see Alternative Energy as a Benefit and not a technological marvel for the Young and the Restless Crowd. It also fortifies us against disasters on the scale of that in Japan.

It would diversify our Power Utility Company Network enough to make our Power Systems more resilient in the face of a disaster of that scale and magnitude. An Earthquake is as sure as the Radioactive Showers of Blessing are to come to Jamaica. Radioactive food months later in our Chinese imports!

I just hope that this time, the Government of Jamaica heeds the words of former Minister of State, Dean Peart back in 2007 and established a Tsunami Early Warning Center as stated in the article “Jamaica Tsunami alert centre on Fast track” published Wednesday January 24, 2007, The Jamaica Gleaner.

Otherwise we might end up like the buccaneers at 1962 Jamaica Earthquake in Port Royal that sank the Pirate Haven nearly three hundred and nineteen (319) years ago at 11:43 am on June 7, 1962.

My opinion on this matter, now made evident by the Tragedy in Japan is poignantly expressed in my blog article entitled “Tsunami watch needed urgently for Real this time”, as like Japan, we sit on the edge of a very large Tectonic plate, the Caribbean Plate, now overdue for another Big One. I just hope Mother Nature does not choose to Hold it Against Me (2011), Britney Spears Style!!

LIME's fortunes after Digicel-CLARO - Master and Commander Garfield Sinclair

On adamant our wrongs we all engrave,

But write our benefits upon the wave.

William King, The Art of Love

With the recent horse trading of Telecom Provider CLARO’s operations in Jamaica, El Salvador and Honduras between Digicel Group and America Movil respectively as chronicle in my blog article entitled “Digicel buys CLARO Jamaica - Jumanji Exchange is no Robbery”, the annual listing of the billionaires as collated by the Forbes Magazine is now out and about. Upon perusing the wealth of the rivals in what is really a rich man’s game of Poker, it becomes apparent who is really top dog. Carlos Slim Helu.

So tough is this Forbes Magazine listing, that I had to find separate newspaper articles that de the wealth of these members of the Bilderburg Billion Dollar Round Table – which DOES have its origins from the Rothschilds Family, please note, dear reader.

Seventy one (71) year old Carlos Slim Helu, owner of America Movil’s, parent company of No. 2 CLARO and owner and licensee of the brand across Latin America, by tops out at US$74 billion dollars in pole position on the charts as stated in the article “Carlos Slim Tops Forbes List of Billionaires for Second Year”, published March 10, 2011 12:01 AM ET by Elizabeth Ody, BloomBerg Magazine.

Carlos Slim Helu maintains his position from last year, with fifty five year old (55) Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation coming it the coveted No. 2 position with US$56 billion, with friend and investor eighty year (80) old Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway coming in at third place. Notice their ages: apparently wealth accumulates with age and experience, with Bill Gates being the youngest of the bunch in terms of relative age.

By contrast, fifty two (52) year old Dennis O' Brien, owner of Digicel Groups, which has operations in thirty two (32) regions scattered the Caribbean, Latin America and the South Pacific Islands, comes in at two hundred and fifty four (254) with US$4.2 billion on the Forbes Magazine. This according to the article in The Jamaica Observer, entitled “Denis O'Brien's Wealth Tops US$4b”, published Sunday March 13, 2011, The Jamaica Observer.

Thus the obvious becomes apparent: Dennis O' Brien did NOT buy Telecom Provider CLARO’s operations in Jamaica because he WANTED to buy.  He was FORCED to buy or as should be said correctly, MAKE an offer to America Movil’s, being as Telecom Provider Digicel in Jamaica was under pressure.

This apparent from the multitude of promotions that was a drain on the purse strings of the almost limitless financial resources of America Movil’s, who could have kept up the Battle of “Free” forcing Digicel Group into a continuous pitched battle for “God of Abraham only knows how long”, as my cosmetologist SDA femme fetale Audia Granston used to opine.

Again, if you are not a believer in newspapers, America Movil’s posting of the transaction on their Bulletin board entitled “America Movil to acquire Digcel's operations in Honduras and El Salvador and to sell its operations in Jamaica” avails itself as absolute reference.

So where does all this leave Telecom Provider LIME, rebranded in 2008 from C&W (Cable and Wireless) Jamaica Ltd by June 2011? With the horse-race reduced down to a two-man affair, Telecom Provider LIME is in a bad shape in terms of its Residential Services, all of which are not up to scratch.

Telecom Provider LIME 3G Service, launched a few weeks before America Movil’s officially launched the repurchased and rebranded MiPhone, previously owned by Oceanic Digital Jamaica Ltd in the last Quarter of 2008, is still to achieve island-wide coverage.

This despite promising to reach Montego Bay with their Service by Christmas of 2010 as stated in the article “LIME to build US$40m 3G Network for Montego Bay”, published Sunday June 27, 2010, by Janeta Silvera, The Jamaica Gleaner.

They have yet to full reach the rest of the island, most likely because they build out their Network by laying Fiber Optic cable connections between the Mobile Cell towers to connect their Node B equipment to the MSC (Mobile Switching Center) located at Chalmer’s Avenue.

Building out a Fiber Optic Network takes time, as Telecom Provider LIME have been slowly replacing their old 600-twisted pair Copper Cables both undersea as well as on land with Fiber Optic since 2004!

For reference, I worked at Telecom Provider C&W, now Telecom Provider LIME as a Network Maintenance Technician, wiring and fixing mainly Landlines, ADSL and Remote OPM (Outside Plant Modules) and OPAC (Outside Plant Access Cabinet) Landline while employed between the years 2001 to 2004!

So I know quite a bit about the costing in provisioning the services of a Telecom Provider, both from a technical standpoint as well as from a Business standpoint having grown up in Telecoms and engineering for the greater part of my life.

I am a true Prince of Persia much as the character in the movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Times (2010). A nickname I got, as I was rescued from an obscure dead-end low-paying job at National Bakery in 2001AD due my defense of Apple Inc. and then rehired CEO Steve Jobs.

Thus, coming from a poor family in Milk River, I was introduced to the wealth, delights and splendour of Telecoms [Persia] and I have never looked back. This was my nickname at C&W, due to my defense of Telecom Provider C&W but dislike for their lack of marketing savvy!!!

So let logic reign. Triple Play Provider FLOW with their “Watch.Talk.Click” product offering is yet to reach the rest of the country and is mainly centered in Kingston! This after launching with much fanfare in 2004 as being an all-Digital Network as stated in the article, “Flows' pace slows - But Broadcasting Commission okay with Network Delay”, published Friday August 28, 2009, The Jamaica Gleaner!

So despite their slowness in the outlay of their 3G Network, Telecom Provider LIME is not doing too badly, as their Service is stable and rock solid in Kingston and the Greater Portmore Area.

That is the power and reliability of Fiber Optics outlays, an implementation of Waveguide technologies: the best backhaul for ANY Wireless or Wired Network! Believe it or not!!

Triple Play Provider FLOW still have the advantage of being the major supplier of T1 interconnectivity in Jamaica as noted in my blog article entitled “CLARO, LIME and HSDPA+ - CEO Michele English, The Maverick”. Not to mention having gone Digital before all the Terrestrial Free-to-Air Big Three (3) Broadcasters as stated in my blog article entitled “Telecom Providers, 100MBps Broadband and the Broadcasting Commission - Redemption Song”.

Telecom Provider LIME’s focus on Business to the detriment of its Residential Services appears to not be working in their favour. Traditionally, Business Customers are given wholesale priced offers for services, with Residential having to pay much higher prices on Wired Services.

Ditto too for Wireless! Thus, prices for their Business Customers (also called Corporate or Enterprise Services!!) are usually offered with the guarantee of QoS (Quality of Service), with such offering as Dedicated Internet and PBX Voice Services, mainly as Business Customers pay for their services on regular Monthly thirty (30) day billing cycles.

Business Customers pay a Premium for these Dedicated Services with their QoS guarantees. I used to argue that QoS guarantees are best backed up with an ISO9001 Certification, which Telecom Provider LIME is yet to seek to undertake to achieve.

I still do, as obvious from my blog article about Alcatel-Lucent’s more efficient lamp-post sized design for a Node B, (which I suspect is a suggestion of mine in 2009 come alive!!) entitled “Telecom Providers, Alternative Energy and ISO9001 - Alcatel-Lucent, I shrunk the Node B kids”.

Residential Customers, be they Wired or Wireless, are more fickle when it comes to paying for their Service on time, again traditional wisdom and not necessarily a reflection of the Economy. Thus Telecom Providers do not place much attention on their services, opting instead to fete Residential Customers with pricing offers and deals to entice them to stick with their Network.

In the United States of America, it is mainly two (2) year contracts combined with Unlimited Calling and Data Plan offerings, especially on smartphones and Feature phones that are used to maintain Customer loyalty to the Telecom Provider’s Network.

However, despite this logical focus on the more sure money from Business Customers, Residential Customers, be they Wired or Wireless are still important, especially to Brand image. Especially in light of their considerable losses in landline as obvious from combing through the articles entitled “LIME Jamaica loses J$1.3 billion in First Quarter”, published Friday, February 11, 2011 by Alecia Roache, The Jamaica Observer.

Majority of their losses appear to be in due mainly to their increased spending and promotional activity, something that LIME Country Manager Jeff Houston had promised from 2010. Apparently, Telecom Provider CLARO Promotions was putting the heart on Telecom Provider LIME also!

But it is the declaration from Managing Director of LIME, Garfield Sinclair, however best expresses what I had long suspected: their Landline Network, made up mostly of DMS 100/200 and NEAX61E Switches was dragging them down. Remember folks, logic rules here in my argument.

During a Q&A with Alecia Roache a Reporter from The Jamaica Observer with regards to details of the published Financial statements for the Fourth Quarter of 2010, he commented on the future of Landline, quote: “We're now seen as innovators again, with exciting new services like mobile TV, which will only enhance our ability to permanently attract mobile Customers to our Network. Our landline business will receive a much needed facelift in the coming quarter and has already begun to show renewed signs of strength in December with a 19 per cent increase in Gross Adds over the previous year”

As I had worked their before, I know that the greatest expense in running the Central Office with these Digital Telecom Switches or Exchanges is their power consumption mainly for:

1.      Running the Switches, Modems, Digital and Analog Trunks and other exchange equipment

2.      Air conditioning used to cool the building to keep the equipment from overheating

3.      Pressurizing the 600-pair and fiber optic cables with dry air that keeps out moisture

Removal of this expenditure via going Alternative Energy would not only save Telecom Provider LIME  money in the long run as stated my blog article entitled “Telecom Providers and Alternative Energy - Stormy Weather and the MTV Generation”, but it could put them on the path to achieving QoS and thus ISO9001 Certification.

Boosting of Customer usage by attracting them with VAS (Value Added Services) such as ADSL (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line) services is therefore key to the long term viability of the Central Office.

This after Managing Director of LIME, Garfield Sinclair, went on further to declare that Broadband penetration is still too low and, quote, “We believe broadband penetration continues to be far too low given its positive effect on GDP growth and we will therefore continue to work with the government and our communities to expand broadband Service in Jamaica”.

Thus the obvious becomes apparent. Long before all of this brouhaha occurred in the Mobile Sector, Telecom Provider LIME outlook was already long term, with an aim to ride out the effects of the Global Recession until better times prevail when the spending power of Jamaican consumer return to make it worth their while to make a major push island wide with the 3G Network.

Rather than be caught up in the hype, Telecom Provider LIME’s outlook is long-term, slowly building out a quality, QoS and eventually ISO9001 certify-able 3G Network and LTE Network (?).

In the short term, Telecom Providers will continue to advertise their better offers (I can attest to this, as I use LIME Faves and it is mad!!!!) and capitalize from the possible negative fallout form Telecom Provider Digicel purchase of the Jamaican assets of Telecom Provider CLARO. He who advertises the most always wins out in the fierce pitched Pricing-centric battles between Telecom Providers.

Especially in the Wireless Services, such as Mobile and M2M (Machine-to-Machine Services), is a now rapidly expanding VAS for Telecom Provider AT&T, who have vowed to push aggressively into this market for the year 2011 as stated in my blog article entitled “AT&T, NFC andM2M - Cashless Society and the Internet of Things”.

Already, Telecom Provider AT&T has launched yet another VAS (Value Added Service). This time it is called ShopAlerts, which is basically FourSquare clone as described in my blog article entitled “AT&T and ShopAlerts - Confessions of a Geo-location Shopaholic”.

Despite the massive 270% increase in losses for the Fourth Quarter of 2010, these losses for Telecom Provider LIME are explainable and not mysterious cost overruns. Thus one can be forgiven for getting over-excited by the figures, again once you have read them through hand analyzed the statistics.

Thus the mission is clear. Telecom Provider LIME needs to take advantage of this golden opportunity presented to them to revive their sagging Landline portfolio with a combination of Technology and Marketing.

Expanding the Landline Service by offering it as an ADSL bundle with the landline would be the best offer at prices competitive to their closes rival Triple Play Provider FLOW.

Additionally, more marketing of the Landline Xpress, the Wireless EDGE based Landline Service that is a VAS for their now Stellar Mobile Services so as to effectively compete with Telecom Provider Digicel Fixed Line Services.

As for their 3G Services, they need to continue at the same pace, doing market surveys to determine areas where people have computer and an interest in computing and thus provision those Mobile Towers and Ericsson Node B with the necessary 3G Service so as to make their outlay of 3G cost efficient, instead of a rapid outlay without hard statistical evidence of their outlay being financially viable in the long term.

Truly, Managing Director of LIME, Garfield Sinclair must become “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)”. He now is given the task of bringing the now fully paid up and sea-salt sodden and experienced crew of Telecom Provider LIME through the most harrowing seven (7) year journey of their lives.

This as Telecom Provider LIME rides out the worst of the effects of the Global Recession onboard Telecom Provider LIME in the shadow of the boarding of Telecom Provider CLARO ship by members of the ship Telecom Provider Digicel.