Geisha Kow­lessar-Alon­zo

geisha.kow­lessar@guardian.co.tt

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny TSTT has in­vest­ed over $120 mil­lion in the ex­pan­sion of its fi­bre net­work in­fra­struc­ture across T&T.

This brings the to­tal in­vest­ment for To­ba­go in par­tic­u­lar, to $50M, with the fi­bre in­fra­struc­ture now ex­pect­ed to reach an­oth­er 3,000 homes in com­mu­ni­ties like Char­lot­teville, L’Anse Four­mi, Par­latu­vi­er, Cas­tara, Les Couteaux and Mo­ri­ah, TSTT’s CEO Lisa Agard said at the Spey­side High School on Mon­day.

The com­pa­ny’s lead­er­ship joined stu­dents and teach­ers of the school along­side rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Di­vi­sions of Health and Ed­u­ca­tion, ex­ec­u­tives of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) and mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty to hand over a Huawei IdeaHub to the school.

Agard said the com­pa­ny is al­so pro­vid­ing wire­less in­ter­net con­nec­tiv­i­ty for the IdeaHub de­vice at the school. Com­ment­ing on the roll-out of the fi­bre net­work for To­ba­go Agard said, “When this is com­plete, we will have fi­bre through­out the length and breadth of To­ba­go, 95 per cent of the is­land will have cov­er­age.”

She not­ed this is a ma­jor net­work cov­er­age ex­pan­sion project.

“We are on a mis­sion to en­sure all To­bag­o­ni­ans have ac­cess to the con­nec­tiv­i­ty tools that are so fun­da­men­tal for to­day’s rapid­ly chang­ing, dig­i­tal world and I can con­fi­dent­ly say we are close to achiev­ing this mis­sion,” Agard added.

She said this al­so high­lights the im­por­tance of a ro­bust fi­bre net­work sup­port­ing the over­all de­vel­op­ment of a coun­try.

“With ac­cess to high-speed in­ter­net be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly cru­cial in to­day’s dig­i­tal age, TSTT’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing its fi­bre net­work will sig­nif­i­cant­ly ben­e­fit T&T’s cit­i­zens and busi­ness­es,” she said.

Far­ley Au­gus­tine, Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, ad­vo­cat­ed for the school to be the re­cip­i­ent of the Huawei IdeaHub in­vest­ment for sev­er­al rea­sons.