Hurricane Telecom wars: Cable and Wireless, FLow and Digicel
These are my experiences:
Mobile
CWJ Bmobile won hands down. Digicel's network might have been up but either was not working or could not handle the traffic. Digicel greeted you with busy signals, dropped calls, poor connections. I found the ' press release' from Digicel in the Gleaner nothing more than hilarious.
This conversation on Power 106 FM's Both Sides of the story summed up Digicel's problem.
Cuffe: We have Harry Smith from Digicel on the Line.
Cuffe: Hello Hello mmh Hello Hello
silence
Cuffe: Well we had him but it seems like we lost him...
That pretty much summed up the experience on Digicel Network.
Bmobile on the other had few incidents of 'check system status or something like that' but on those few occasion on a second try , calls went through and there was no dropped calls, no poor connection and no busy signals.
Interestingly I found it easier to call a Digicel phone from CWJ phone than from a Digicel phone.
Internet
On the internet side, Flow won overall but just. During the the hurricane CWJ won but CWJ fell down on Wednesday when they went down. Digicel did well but when the winds of Dean hit their dishes they went out of alignment and that was the end of them. Flow held up but there was some problems I heard from other users. CWJ would have won overall but that mess up the Wednesday after cost them dearly.
Digicel Press Release
Mobile
CWJ Bmobile won hands down. Digicel's network might have been up but either was not working or could not handle the traffic. Digicel greeted you with busy signals, dropped calls, poor connections. I found the ' press release' from Digicel in the Gleaner nothing more than hilarious.
This conversation on Power 106 FM's Both Sides of the story summed up Digicel's problem.
Cuffe: We have Harry Smith from Digicel on the Line.
Cuffe: Hello Hello mmh Hello Hello
silence
Cuffe: Well we had him but it seems like we lost him...
That pretty much summed up the experience on Digicel Network.
Bmobile on the other had few incidents of 'check system status or something like that' but on those few occasion on a second try , calls went through and there was no dropped calls, no poor connection and no busy signals.
Interestingly I found it easier to call a Digicel phone from CWJ phone than from a Digicel phone.
Internet
On the internet side, Flow won overall but just. During the the hurricane CWJ won but CWJ fell down on Wednesday when they went down. Digicel did well but when the winds of Dean hit their dishes they went out of alignment and that was the end of them. Flow held up but there was some problems I heard from other users. CWJ would have won overall but that mess up the Wednesday after cost them dearly.
Digicel Press Release
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