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Flow Jamaica 2G shutdown underway

Liberty Latin America (LLA) has confirmed that its Flow Jamaica subsidiary has commenced the deactivation of its 2G mobile network. In its 2Q22 report the group explained: ‘During the second quarter of 2022, we began to shut down our 2G network in Jamaica and have reflected the associated decline in mobile subscribers as a non-organic adjustment. We expect further non-organic adjustments related to the final stages of the shutdown, which will impact as many as approximately 30,000 subscribers in the second half of 2022.’

Flow enjoyed a monopoly on the Jamaican mobile market from March 1990 until its first two competitors launched in 2001. Initially operating a TDMA network, in July 2003 it launched commercial GSM and GPRS services using the 1900MHz band, having contracted the now-defunct Nortel Networks to deploy its 2G networks the previous year.



Source: https://www.commsupdate.com/articles/2022/08/05/flow-jamaica-2g-shutdown-underway/

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