TSTT is com­mit­ted to im­prov­ing the broad­band ser­vice in T&T NS has in­vest­ed more than $500 mil­lion in wire­less broad­band in an­tic­i­pa­tion of a grow­ing de­mand for high-speed mo­bile, in­ter­net ac­cess.

So said Nizam Baksh, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, when he ad­dressed the 29th An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and Mi­ni Ex­po of the Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Or­ga­ni­za­tion (Can­to) at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad in Port-of-Spain.

Baksh, who com­mend­ed Can­to on the meet­ings's theme To­wards a SMART Broad­band Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty, not­ed its rel­e­vance to the im­pend­ing Broad­band In­fra­struc­ture In­ven­to­ry and Pub­lic Aware­ness Project which is be­ing done in con­junc­tion with the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB). The project aims to strength­en the ICT sec­tor in the re­gion to im­prove in­no­va­tion and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.

Leon Williams, for­mer chair­man of Can­to and Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies for the evening, thanked the min­is­ter for re­mind­ing par­tic­i­pants of the need to con­tin­ue to work to­geth­er to achieve the or­gan­i­sa­tion's ob­jec­tive of pro­vid­ing spe­cif­ic, mea­sur­able, at­tain­able, re­al­is­tic and time­ly broad­band for all of the re­gion's stake­hold­ers.