Weblinks, a local teleommunications company and Digicel, a company with branches in various parts of the Caribbean, have submitted bids for a licence to supply a 1,800 megahertz mobile service in Anguilla.

The tenders were opened at the Department of Infrastructure, Communications and Utilities on Friday, December 5. The bid by Weblinks was US$120,001 and Digicel US$152,400.

An announcement of the successful company is expected to be made by December 31. The Anguilla Government is being advised on the matter by telecommunications consultants Peter Stern & Associates and the legal firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.

Weblinks and Digicel are two of the companies that have so far taken an interest in supplying some of the telecommunications services in Anguilla which are resulting from the liberalisation of the market in Anguilla.
Weblinks, whose Chief Executive Officer is Griffin Webster with Kennedy Hodge as Chairman, has been providing a high speed wireless internet service on the island for some time now. They are now taking the opportunity to expand their work with the provision of mobile services. Mr. Webster is of the view that there is a need for healthy competition and good telecommunications services which he sees as being important to the overall development of Anguilla.

Digicel, originally an Irish company, operates in Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines and Grenada and is now setting up operations in the Cayman Islands and Barbados.

Anguillian businessman, Maurice Connor, is a partner and Director in the company. The Country Manager is John Byrne who was in Anguilla along with Frank O’Caroll, Business Development Director, and Vanessa Stowey, Country Manager for Trinidad and Tobago.
The company stated in a press release that it was delighted to submit an application for a mobile licence and that Anguillians would benefit enormously from the competition entering the market.

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