BUSINESS BYTE: Cable & Wireless & WhatsApp Sign Partnership

Cable & Wireless - Sunday, January 31st, 2016 at 12:55 PM
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Cable & Wireless logoA First for the Caribbean Region                                          

“Since the emergence of Over The Top (OTT) Communication services, Cable & Wireless has maintained our commitment to work with authorized service providers to ensure customers have access to world-leading services on their devices, running on the region’s best networks,” said John Reid, C&W’s Consumer Group President.

“We are excited to work with Cable & Wireless to help people across the Caribbean stay better connected with friends and family,” said Brian Acton, Co-Founder of WhatsApp.

The most popular cross-platform mobile messaging app available today, WhatsApp Messenger is used by more than 900 million people worldwide to communicate with friends and family, near and far. The application enables WhatsApp calls, the sharing of photos, videos and audio messages, and allows the user to engage in multiple messaging conversations simultaneously on mobile phones and via WhatsApp Web.

Reid added, “This partnership with WhatsApp will improve ease and convenience of communication technology, enrich our customers’ experience, and is therefore consistent with our mission – “Connecting Communities… and Transforming Lives.”

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8 Comments

  1. watchdog
    February 1, 2016

    Whatsapp is already free. Texting free, calls free etc. So what is the real motive behind this? This does not feel right. It’s not our business which carrier we have, Digicel or FLOW (Cable and Wireless), the service is free, so I suspect there is move afoot by C&W to acquire the full services of Whatsapp and then …….no more free messaging etc. SMH.

  2. Steve Foerster
    February 1, 2016

    This shouldn’t even be necessary. When I have a data plan, whether through FLOW or some other provider, that’s MY data, and I should be able to use it as I see fit!

    • derp
      February 1, 2016

      I’m not sure if you have heard of project fi from google but the rates for talk and data are cheaper than FLOW, like seriously, you can be roaming with a US phone service from google and get cheaper rates than from FLOW…

      • Steve Foerster
        February 2, 2016

        That’s not surprising. I’ve used my U.S. mobile in Dominica before for that reason.

  3. *
    February 1, 2016

    WHY!

  4. lightbulb
    January 31, 2016

    what exactly is the partnership??

  5. Me
    January 31, 2016

    hahahahahaha

  6. Bee
    January 31, 2016

    Whatsapp is currently free. What’s the catch? what is cables hoping to do to gain something?

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