CCT launches residential LTE service
According to a press release from CCT today July 28, 2015, customers can select from three GO FAST LTE packages – starting at just $99 a month for LTE 1, with ideal speed for email, web browsing and social media -- LTE 2 ($199), with extra speed for file sharing and audio streaming, or LTE 3 ($299), with blazing high speeds for video streaming and online gaming.
"CCT continues to provide immediate solutions for all your communication needs. No wireline needed. No installation fees. Just come in and get our easy plug and play GO FAST LTE router with built in Wi-Fi for the home and enjoy LTE speed today,” said the press release
“We at CCT are very excited to deliver BVI’s first 4G LTE network to our customers. GO FAST LTE is the residential unlimited internet solution that customers have been waiting for,” Romney Averad Penn, CCT CEO said, according to the press release.
“As proud sponsor of the BVI Emancipation Festival, customers are invited to stop by the CCT Festival Booth to learn more about this great new product offering. Customers are also invited to sign up during BVI Emancipation Festival for a saving of 50% off GO FAST LTE router which normally retails for $299,” the release said.
Janette N. Brin, Marketing and Public Relations Manager at CCT BVI confirmed that this residential LTE package being offered has nothing to do with the pending application to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission for mobile 4G LTE services which have not been awarded to telecommunication service providers as yet.
“This isn’t mobile LTE services that we are launching. This is the residential service,” she said when contacted.
Mobile LTE sometime early 2016
CEO of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Guy L. Malone had told this news site that operators will need about six months from the time they receive their licence to deliver LTE services to customers but there needs to be consultation with industry players to determine when those services can be delivered.
The TRC recently disclosed that it is expected to grant LTE licences in October 2015 which would facilitate improved internet services in the Virgin Islands.
“Following the issuing of licences in October, you have to take into consideration that you have to give the operators to a chance to build their LTE network with respect to the spectrum that they acquire from the process,” Malone had said.
“You are looking at a minimum of six months. We haven’t decided yet what the timeframe will be. That will be done in consultation with the operators because each of them will have different views as to how long it would take or if they need to build extra towers et cetera.”
Malone further said that the three companies that are competing for the award of the LTE spectrum are CCT Global Communications, Digicel BVI and LIME. “They are now reviewing that draft consultation document and they would speak to us following which we will move on to the next phase; evaluating and coming up with the criteria [for the award of the spectrum],” he had explained.
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23 Responses to “CCT launches residential LTE service”
I'm also assuming you are a LIME or DIGI fan. Much less a "We.Eye.Pee" advocate.
don't get me wrong, I think the $99 plan is the best residential offer out there (lime adsl is crap, and digicel is expensive), but let's call things by their names, LTE speeds are 30 to 50 mb/s
Seems like a great product offering! Good to see the local company pushing forward! I will definitely be checking it out.
It's unfortunate that people can't shake this NDP critizim some of these bloggers on here just either don't like local (them selves) or lack pride. So old - get a new complaint if you sooo need to complain ... why would any government NDP or VIP want any local business to fail? I would assume that every country government is in place to make life better for its people. So do we want locals to suffer at home? BVI need to make up their mind! A number of my international friends always ask me why BVI hate BVI so much!!! It can be seen in almost everything we do here .. we don't love ourselves -- WHY don't WE?
It's fine if you prefer another carrier your entitled to your choice - as the local company is entitled to compete in the market by providing their choice --- geez
“This isn’t mobile LTE services that we are launching. This is the residential service,” she said when contacted LTE IS LTE. S
4G here in the BVI is a ripoff.