Gulf City Mall in Low­lands To­ba­go is home to the newest blink | bmo­bile Ex­pe­ri­ence Store, com­plet­ing the com­pa­ny's move from the icon­ic Car­o­line Build­ing in Scar­bor­ough that it had oc­cu­pied for more than a decade. The new store opened last Fri­day in To­ba­go and cus­tomers were tru­ly de­light­ed by what they saw, stay­ing on to en­joy the com­pa­ny's launch cer­e­mo­ny even af­ter the store was closed to the pub­lic. Speak­ing to a cross sec­tion of busi­ness and res­i­den­tial cus­tomers and TSTT staff at the Gulf City Mall, chair­man of the board of di­rec­tors of TSTT Ever­ald Snag­gs said the newest lo­ca­tion was one of sev­er­al sig­nif­i­cant ini­tia­tives in the com­pa­ny's over­all mar­ket de­vel­op­ment strat­e­gy for To­ba­go."As part of a broad­er five-year growth plan for the com­pa­ny and giv­en the strate­gic im­por­tance of To­ba­go to TSTT, the board of TSTT ap­proved of man­age­ment tak­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty to open this larg­er, more mod­ern blink | bmo­bile Cus­tomer Ex­pe­ri­ence Store to com­ple­ment the ma­jor ser­vice and in­fra­struc­tur­al works TSTT has start­ed in To­ba­go."

Snag­gs said in the past year TSTT com­plet­ed a fiber op­tic ring around the is­land to im­prove de­liv­ery of mod­ern en­ter­tain­ment and broad­band ser­vices. He al­so not­ed that Fiber-to-the-com­mu­ni­ty and Long Term Evo­lu­tion (LTE) wire­less broad­band projects were un­der­way in sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties and more re­cent­ly the com­pa­ny launched a TV en­ter­tain­ment so­lu­tion for ho­tels and guest hous­es."This store is on­ly the third mall lo­ca­tion for blink | bmo­bile and it comes at the right time to sup­port serv­ing cus­tomers with world class in­for­ma­tion com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy ser­vices," he said, adding that TSTT's goals and plans for To­ba­go will com­ple­ment the is­land's own goals and as­pi­ra­tions."I do be­lieve that our mar­ket de­vel­op­ment goals find a good fit with Com­pre­hen­sive Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment Plan, set out for To­ba­go 2013-2017, and will pro­vide the ro­bust sup­port need­ed to achieve them. In do­ing so, the de­sign and build out of this Ex­pe­ri­ence Store is in­tend­ed to fa­cil­i­tate the strate­gies of the de­vel­op­ment of To­ba­go, as well as pro­vide the com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy need­ed by the peo­ple of To­ba­go, to achieve their own in­di­vid­ual as­pi­ra­tions," Snag­gs said.

TSTT CEO Ronald Wal­cott said from the well-ap­point­ed cus­tomer ser­vice and cashier spaces, to a mod­ern Q-mat­ic ser­vice man­age­ment sys­tem and tech­nol­o­gy cen­tre, where cus­tomers can get hands on ex­pe­ri­ence with mo­bile and broad­band tech­nol­o­gy, the aim is to cre­ate a last­ing im­pres­sion."One of our strate­gic in­ten­tions this year is to en­sure that To­ba­go's leg­endary hos­pi­tal­i­ty, beau­ty and en­tre­pre­neur­ial dri­ve is matched by the req­ui­site tech­no­log­i­cal ca­pac­i­ty of TSTT to en­able a suite of mod­ern prod­ucts and ser­vices that po­si­tions To­ba­go at the fore­front for stake­hold­ers, be they res­i­dents, va­ca­tion­ers or busi­ness trav­el­ers. "In­deed, we al­so aim to so­lid­i­fy our po­si­tion as a part­ner in To­ba­go's de­vel­op­ment. To be more spe­cif­ic, per­sons on the is­land will be­gin to see us com­plet­ing the roll-out of ser­vices that are sim­i­lar to what is avail­able in the most mod­ern coun­tries."

Wal­cott said while some mar­kets in North Amer­i­ca are im­ple­ment­ing LTE to go live from No­vem­ber 2015, in To­ba­go blink | bmo­bile is rolling it out in No­vem­ber 2014. He said the blink | bmo­bile Ex­pe­ri­ence is was an­oth­er as­pect of TSTT com­plete­ly mod­ernising its To­ba­go op­er­a­tions. "The blink | bmo­bile Ex­pe­ri­ence Store is de­signed to pro­vide our cus­tomers in To­ba­go with all the ameni­ties and con­ve­nience one can ex­pect from deal­ing with a first world tele­com provider," he said.