
Digicel Group, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications provider in the Caribbean, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of seven Cingular Wireless operations in the Caribbean and Bermuda following regulatory approval by the governments of those islands. Digicel is now in a position to increase the size of its pan-Caribbean GSM network to include Bermuda, Anguilla, St Kitts and Nevis and Dominica. It has also received regulatory approval for the acquisition of Cingular’s operations on the islands of Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The company hopes to receive regulatory approval in the remaining markets of Barbados, the Cayman Islands and Antigua and Barbuda in the near future.