CLARO'S parent company, América Móvil (AMX), while it can boast more than 195 million subscribers worldwide, acknowledges that it remains in the Jamaican telecommunications market, very much a 'new company'.

However, Thursday night the Mexican-owned company announced that it had overtaken British LIME to become the second largest cellular network in Jamaica behind Irish Digicel in terms of 'active users'. However, both LIME and Digicel refuted Claro's claim.

Claro says it still targets overtaking Digicel in 2010.

Claro made the announcement during a dinner held at the Hilton Kingston Hotel in New Kingston, used to update the private sector on its progress after its first year of operation, having acquired the existing Oceanic Digital licence and its MiPhone brand before its re-launch as Claro late 2008.

"The results to date, after one year of operating with the Claro brand, we at Claro are pleased to announce this evening that we are now the second-largest mobile provider in Jamaica," said IT director Colin Webster. "We simply count the persons who, within the last month, voted for Claro by using our service."...

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