Cus­tomers will now ex­pe­ri­ence faster broad­band down­load speeds at no ad­di­tion­al cost as Colum­bus Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, op­er­a­tors of Flow and Colum­bus Busi­ness So­lu­tions, has an­nounced a sig­nif­i­cant up­grade to three of its ma­jor res­i­den­tial pack­ages.Start­ing to­mor­row, Flow cus­tomers will see a 5 mpbs up­grade at no ad­di­tion­al cost to its Tur­bo 5, Tur­bo 15 and Tur­bo 25 pack­ages.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, cus­tomers who cur­rent­ly sub­scribe to Tur­bo 50 and Tur­bo 100 pack­ages will see a re­duc­tion in the month­ly cost of $100 and $150 re­spec­tive­ly."The launch of this broad­band up­grade is part of our com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue to bring the best broad­band ser­vices to Trinidad and To­ba­go at the most cost ef­fec­tive prices.

"It is our be­lief that faster broad­band speeds for our res­i­den­tial cus­tomers mean that they will be bet­ter able to utilise broad­band in all ar­eas of their lives and take ad­van­tage of the many emerg­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties in the dig­i­tal and on­line are­na," said Bri­an Collins, man­ag­er di­rec­tor of Colum­bus Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Trinidad Lim­it­ed and the South­ern Caribbean.Collins al­so an­nounced the launch of a com­plete­ly new 2mpbs pack­age at a cost of $139.

"This will re­place the cur­rent UClick 20 hour pack­age," he said."Broad­band is chang­ing how peo­ple learn, work and play," said Collins."The dig­i­tal world is open­ing up new pos­si­bil­i­ties every day. Cre­at­ing on­line con­tent, en­gag­ing in per­son­al hob­bies via band­with in­ten­sive pro­grammes, keep­ing in touch on mul­ti­ple de­vices, live video stream­ing and shar­ing with fam­i­ly across the world are com­mon­place. And at Colum­bus we are proud to put Trinida­di­ans on the fore­front of these de­vel­op­ments."

Wendy Mc­Don­ald, di­rec­tor, Cor­po­rate and Gov­ern­ment Af­fairs for Colum­bus Trinidad said: "This up­grade is about en­abling cit­i­zens of Trinidad to re­alise their po­ten­tial. At Colum­bus we are pas­sion­ate about en­cour­ag­ing cus­tomers to use tech­nol­o­gy at af­ford­able prices and faster speeds in or­der to gain ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion and knowl­edge for the de­vel­op­ment of a more ed­u­cat­ed and ad­vanced so­ci­ety."Faster speeds make it pos­si­ble to con­nect eas­i­er, stream faster, and con­duct re­search quick­er."