Digicel: Road to riches

Haitians line up 05 May, 2006, at the newly opened DIGICEL office in Port-au-Prince to get new cellular phones and service

April 2001: Mobile phone network provider Digicel is founded by Irish entrepreneur Denis O’Brien in Jamaica.

2003-2004: Digicel launches in St Lucia, St Vincent, the Grenadines, Aruba, Grenada, Barbados and the Cayman Islands.

March 2005: Digicel acquires 100 per cent of the share capital of Curaçao Telecom NV.

2006: Digicel launches in Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, French Guiana, Guyana, Turks, Caicos and Bonaire. It acquires Digicel Holdings in El Salvador, and moves into ...