Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider blink I bmo­bile has ex­pand­ed its ex­ist­ing 3G mo­bile net­work to en­hance its ex­ist­ing ca­pac­i­ty in re­sponse to the grow­ing de­mand for wire­less mo­bile broad­band ser­vice.

As the com­pa­ny moves to­wards a 4G mo­bile net­work, the dou­bling up of its ex­ist­ing 3G mo­bile net­work means that mo­bile cus­tomers will now en­joy great­ly en­hanced ser­vice.

Some of the ma­jor ben­e­fits in­clude faster broad­band down­load and through­put speeds, bet­ter voice qual­i­ty that is crys­tal clear, im­proved cov­er­age in ex­ist­ing ar­eas and an in­crease in ac­com­mo­da­tion for new cus­tomers.

The ex­pan­sion of the mo­bile net­work to twice its ca­pac­i­ty was com­plet­ed in Au­gust and is a con­tin­u­a­tion of TSTT's new strate­gic plan to trans­form it­self from a tra­di­tion­al telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny to an ag­ile broad­band com­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny that is re­spon­sive to its cus­tomers' needs.

Chevon Wil­son, TSTT's Act­ing Ex­ec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Mo­bile Op­er­a­tions and Re­tail Dis­tri­b­u­tion said the ex­pan­sion, which is just Phase 1 of the planned im­prove­ments, "pro­vides a far su­pe­ri­or cus­tomer ex­pe­ri­ence."

He added: "Cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy and cus­tomer ser­vice ex­cel­lence are fun­da­men­tal pil­lars of the strate­gic plan which will pro­vide a new lev­el of greater ser­vice and ex­cit­ing new com­mu­ni­ca­tion so­lu­tions. Sev­er­al projects will be com­plet­ed dur­ing the up­com­ing months as we con­tin­ue to lead the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in­dus­try by lever­ag­ing the unique as­sets of the longest-es­tab­lished and on­ly full ser­vice tele­coms com­pa­ny in the coun­try."

Don Dann is TSTT's Se­nior Man­ag­er, Wire­less Mo­bile Op­er­a­tions and project lead for the 3G net­work ex­pan­sion, high­light­ed the rea­sons for the in­vest­ment in the 3G mo­bile net­work as blink I bmo­bile moves from a 3G to a 4G mo­bile net­work.

"When a per­son down­loads a mu­sic track from the In­ter­net, this will take six to sev­en min­utes on a 2G net­work, ten sec­onds on a 3G net­work and three sec­onds on a 4G mo­bile net­work. Be­sides much faster down­load speeds, the dou­bling up in the ca­pac­i­ty of our 3G net­work will pro­vide cus­tomers with much bet­ter ser­vice in terms of im­proved cov­er­age, clear­er con­ver­sa­tions and ad­di­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty for new cus­tomers," he said.