February 2, 2010 – Hamilton, Bermuda: Digicel, the largest mobile operator in the Caribbean and fastest growing operator in Central America and the Pacific, today unveiled the newest addition to its wide range of BlackBerry® smartphones. The BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone gives customers the freedom and flexibility to organize their work and social life on one sleek and powerful device.

The BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone is packed with an extensive array of high-end communications and multimedia features in a compact and highly refined design that will appeal to users for both professional and personal use. It supports high speed networks around the world, includes built-in GPS and Wi-Fi®, a dazzling high-resolution display, longer music playback (up to 38 hours), and a full QWERTY keyboard.

With its sophisticated design, easy-to-use trackpad and long-lasting battery, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone is made to fit your life. And, like all BlackBerry smartphones, it helps customers shape their future, one day at a time by combining high end, high performance design with high end, high performance applications.

Digicel Bermuda Marketing Director, Shane Mora, said: “Digicel believes that everyone should have easy access to the Internet, email and instant messaging and the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone steals the show in terms of offering these innovative services and applications for those who wish to stay at the top of their communications.”

“Digicel’s competitive prepaid and postpaid price plans offer fantastic value that meets the different needs of each of our customers. The sleek new design of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 has additional features including a 3.2 MP camera, built-in GPS, and a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for customers who want to work smarter while on the go.”

“The elegant and powerful BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone includes a comprehensive suite of features designed to satisfy the most demanding of mobile users – at work and in their personal lives”, said Rick Costanzo, Managing Director, Latin America, Research In Motion. “The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 is a great new addition to the BlackBerry Bold series and we are very excited to be working with Digicel to offer this outstanding smartphone to customers across our markets in the Caribbean and Central America.”

The BlackBerry Bold 9700 will be available from Digicel Bermuda this week.  Interested customers may visit the Digicel Church Street store, call 500-5611 or email info.bermuda@digicelgroup.com to pre-order a device.

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ABOUT DIGICEL GROUP

After eight years of operation, Digicel has 8.6 million customers across its Caribbean and Central American markets and is renowned for competitive rates, unbeatable coverage, superior customer care, a wide variety of products and services and state-of-the-art handsets. By offering innovative wireless services and community support, Digicel has become a leading brand in the Caribbean and has placed the region at the cutting-edge of wireless communications – the company is also a new entrant to the Central American and Pacific markets.

Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and now has operations in 32 markets world-wide. Its Caribbean and Central American markets comprise Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Turks & Caicos. The Caribbean company also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barths. Digicel Pacific comprises Fiji, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

In total, across its 32 markets, Digicel has over ten million subscribers.

Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean and Central American sports teams, including the West Indies Cricket Team and Special Olympics teams throughout the region. Digicel is also title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel, which are the Caribbean and Central American qualifiers to the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Visit www.digicelgroup.com  for more information on Digicel.

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