To­ba­go has be­come the first mar­ket to tran­si­tion to bmo­bile's up­grad­ed mo­bile net­work. This up­grade is part of TSTT's $3.7 bil­lion in­vest­ment which will trans­form the com­pa­ny in­to an ag­ile broad­band provider over the next five years.

EVP Mo­bile Ser­vices (Ag) Chevon Wil­son ex­plained that TSTT has in­vest­ed sig­nif­i­cant­ly in ac­quir­ing new equip­ment for its mo­bile and wire­less net­works.

"We fo­cused on To­ba­go first and have been alert­ing cus­tomers on de­vel­op­ments. We are now on the home stretch with To­ba­go where we are tran­si­tion­ing to an up­grad­ed UMTS net­work," he said

The net­work up­grade was com­plet­ed in To­ba­go Sat­ur­day with the fi­nal mi­nor ad­just­ments ex­pect­ed to be con­clud­ed by Oc­to­ber 28. TSTT's To­ba­go cus­tomers will have a much bet­ter ex­pe­ri­ence with over­all qual­i­ty of ser­vice, is­land­wide cov­er­age, in­clud­ing in­side build­ings, and faster da­ta speeds.

Wil­son cau­tioned that old­er phones, that are 2G-ca­pa­ble on­ly, may not work on the up­grad­ed net­work af­ter Oc­to­ber 9 when the tran­si­tion is com­plet­ed.

He ex­plained: "This work has al­lowed us to re­al­lo­cate re­sources to our up­grad­ed net­work for more ef­fi­cient use, there­fore de­liv­er­ing bet­ter call qual­i­ty, cov­er­age and da­ta speeds."

To ex­pe­ri­ence the ben­e­fits of this up­grade, TSTT is invit­ing cus­tomers the com­pa­ny has con­tact­ed be­cause they have old­er 2G phones, to vis­it the BMo­bile Of­fice at Low­lands, Gulf City Mall, to take ad­van­tage of spe­cial deals to ex­change their hand­set for a new one. The Gulfc­i­ty Low­lands store will al­so have a spe­cial Sun­day open­ing to con­tin­ue fa­cil­i­tat­ing cus­tomers.

Sim­i­lar works will be­gin in Trinidad, once the To­ba­go leg of the net­work up­grade is com­plet­ed. The ul­ti­mate goal, Chevon says, is to en­sure all in­di­vid­ual and busi­ness cus­tomers en­joy the coun­try's fastest and most mod­ern wire­less net­work.