Jamaica- As we watch Flow gobble up Cable TV Companies, (the latest casualty was Entertainment Systems, a 12 year old entity that serves some of the more affluent areas in Kingston and St Andrew) in a bid to rule the triple play( Cable, high speed Internet and landlines) market in Jamaica, we’re asking again will Flow be a benevolent monopoly? In fact is there such a thing? Will Jamaicans have to contend with another Cable & Wireless type era 0f bad service and unwarranted price hikes for addictive bundled products they’ve gotten used to?Flow, the brand of Columbus Communications Ltd, owned by Jamaican/Canadian billion Michael Lee Chin has spent billions of dollars in the past 2 years rolling out their watch, talk and click triple play. They’ve laid lots of fibreoptic pipe, bought cable companies and have been promoting the highspeed digital life. While I concede that these services are necessary to help push internet penetration higher than the measly 34% it is now, let’s watch the leadership, attitudes and what else they’re doing in 20 other Caribbean countries they operate like Trinidad and Bahamas.See also:Grange unhappy with latest Flow dealIf you liked this post, why not Subscribe and get Silicon Caribe Today by Email
