Hamilton, Bermuda – November 1, 2011:   Digicel has launched the new BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 smartphone featuring the latest BlackBerry 7 OS software.

CEO of Digicel Bermuda, Wayne Caines said “Digicel is pleased to introduce the powerful BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone packed with easy to use functionality and brilliant display features.  When combined with our HSPA+ network, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 offers tech-savvy customers a stunning work and play mobile device.”

Receiving positive reviews internationally, the iconic BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 makes it debut as the first dual-input device in the family of Bold smartphones featuring user-friendly QWERTY keypad and a brilliant touch screen display.  The BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone to date at only 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm and weighing-in at just 130g.  The smartphone is built for handling large files, boasting 8GB storage and 768 MB RAM memory. Joining Digicel’s growing list of 4G smartphones, the smartphone offers approximately 5 hours and 50 minutes (3G) in talk time.

The new BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to include built-in ‘Tap and Go’ support for NFC (Near Field Communications) which is a new technology that enables payment transactions, data transmission and wireless connections between two NFC devices. This feature opens the doors for future possibilities in the Bermuda to make bill payments by smartphones.   

The combined benefits of the union between the BlackBerry 7 OS software and Digicel’s HSPA+ mobile network are endless, delivering Liquid Graphics™ technology with visually stunning graphical displays, lightning-bolt browsing capabilities, outstanding multimedia functions and a voice-activated search engine for emails and other saved files.  BlackBerry 7 introduces browsing speeds that are up to 40% faster than BlackBerry® 6 smartphones and up to 100% faster than BlackBerry® 5 based smartphones*.  

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About Digicel

After nine years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has 11 million customers across its 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. The company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.

Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean. In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.

Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.

In 2004, Digicel developed Digicel Rising Stars – an annual talent show to support aspiring young music artists in the Caribbean. The show has spanned the Eastern Caribbean, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago ranking as one of the top-rated shows.

Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean.

Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more information.