Keep in mind that 98% of UWI using Digicel, so once LTE is live there bandwidth would get eaten up quickly so Digicel would need to have lots of antennas there..
One of the former CEO of Digicel Jamaica is the head of the Deep blue cable company. This company will be laying a 8th layer fibre optic cable across the Caribbean, terminating in the US via Miami. With three terminals in Jamaica. This new layout will provide massive capacity for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean over the next 30 years. Digicel it seems, will be independent of Liberty Globals foothold on the fibre optic ring across the Region.
I'm aware of that but what I was referring to was Digicel's spectrum holdings... in Jamaica. Digicel, in order to match or outpace capacity offered by FLOW will have to do spectrum swaps with FLOW, which would also not see a favorable fate for Digicel. There are no allocations wherein Digicel can get 20 MHz of contiguous spectrum that can be aggregated with Band 17. The only way they can do so is if they do a spectrum swap with FLOW on a specific block in PCS (1900 MHz) which is unlikely as Digicel has been cause intermodulation issues FLOW's 850 MHz block (which due to Digicel's 900 MHz block has reduced FLOW's usable bandwidth) therefore FLOW would probably ask for a spectrum swap further up the band plan in exchange. Digicel would need 3CA to compete and Jamaica is simply not the market to do so....
I would never say doomed... hampered, yes... not even a purchase of Caricel can help them... what they need is more spectrum and either the SMA releases more spectrum for auction or Digicel stays stagnant while the competition adds Band 5 LTE and or buys Caricel and aggregate that with Band 4.... either way, C&W did their homework and are reaping the benefits as a result.