Leveraging a teleport – Jamaica
- Author: International Trade Centre
- Main Title: Offshore Back Office Operations
- Publication Date: November 2001
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/21e747a8-en
- Language: English French, Spanish
Jamaica’s information processing industry got its start in the 1980s as a result of the Reagan Administration’s Caribbean Basin Initiative. This initiative was intended to stimulate United States investment in the region’s telecommunications industries, and led to the creation of a 100% digital telecommunications network. Jamaica Digiport International Ltd (JDI) was established in February 1988 as a joint venture company owned by AT&T (United States), Cable & Wireless (United Kingdom) and Telecommunications of Jamaica. Its mandate is to provide total telecommunications services to the export-oriented information processing industry in Jamaica’s free zones (particularly the Montego Bay Free Zone). It provides international services including long-distance, 800 services, switched services at 56 Kbps, SKYNET services at 57 Kbps, and T-1 leased lines.
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