Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices provider Flow is set to pro­vide fi­bre in­ter­net ser­vice to Par­latu­vi­er, Bloody Bay and L’Anse For­mi in To­ba­go.

In a press re­lease, the com­pa­ny an­nounced the roll­out of the ser­vice, which will fall un­der the Uni­ver­sal Ser­vices Fund (USF), ad­min­is­tered by the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT).

“Our teams have been here, work­ing on the ground to get your ar­eas ready for con­nec­tiv­i­ty. To date, we have hun­dreds of homes and busi­ness­es ready for con­nec­tion. Our tech­ni­cal plans will see us de­ploy­ing of over 45km of fi­bre,” said Flow’s Di­rec­tor Tech­ni­cal Op­er­a­tions, Robindranath Ma­haraj at the Project’s Sen­si­ti­za­tion Launch on Au­gust 16 at the Par­latu­vi­er Com­mu­ni­ty/Mul­ti-pur­pose Cen­tre.

Ma­haraj said the ser­vice can be ex­pand­ed to fur­ther ar­eas in the near fu­ture, in­clud­ing Scar­bor­ough, ar­eas along North­side Road and Cas­tara.

Flow ex­plained cus­tomers will be able to ac­cess com­pet­i­tive­ly priced com­mer­cial pack­ages with spe­cial pack­ages be­ing of­fered to vul­ner­a­ble groups through Flow’s CSR ini­tia­tives.

Ma­haraj said, “In ad­di­tion to the con­nec­tiv­i­ty, we en­vi­sion ex­pand­ing our part­ner­ships with com­mu­ni­ty or­gan­i­sa­tions to pro­vide lo­cal dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy train­ing and oth­er adop­tion sup­port to bridge the dig­i­tal di­vide for el­i­gi­ble fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties. This will be achieved though the JUMP Pro­gramme, a CWC ini­tia­tive, which aligns well with TATT, mak­ing for a strong part­ner in this.”

Al­so at­tend­ing and speak­ing at the launch were Min­is­ter of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Has­sel Bac­chus, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, Gilbert Pe­ter­son SC, Chair­man, Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) and Cyn­thia Red­dock Downes, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, TATT.