Digicel reveals up to 80% of its customers now connected to its network following Hurricane Maria

​At a press briefing today Tuesday, Telecommunication company Digicel revealed that up to 80% of its customers are now connected to its networks, since the passage of Hurricane Maria.
 
CEO of Digicel Dominica, Nikima Royer-Jno Baptiste, said 34 of the company’s cell sites are providing service. She provided a list of areas that bare now receiving service, although she said coverage extends beyond the specific points. According to Royer-Jno Baptiste, the following areas are receiving service from Digicel.
 
Roseau, Grand Savanne, Morne Bruce, Portsmouth, Layou, New Ford, Estate, Paix Bouche, Glasgow, Fond Cole, Scotts Head, Hampstead, Woodford Hill, Palmist, Morne Frigate, Canefield, Douglas Pointe, Vieille Case, Jimmit, Picard, Loubiere, Warner, Sultan, Clifton, Castle Comfort
 
Royer-Jno Baptiste said “All of these represent 80% of our customers are connected back to our network”. She noted that the company has provided connectivity to 30 ICT customers.
 
She added “In an effort to provide service to de-centralized customers, those located outside of Roseau, we are also deploying an air-fiber solution, and that should be available in very short order. Later this week we should be connecting our first customers”.
 
Meanwhile, Royer-Jno Baptiste said Digicel is committed to rebuilding Dominica after Hurricane Maria, and informed that the company will assist in re-building seven primary schools, and 360 homes in the eastern and southeastern part of the island, in partnership with IsraAID, and hope that with a stable home environment and appropriate educational facilities, this will be a positive initiative for the children to be really able to settle down after the trauma of Hurricane Maria”.
 
She added that “An RFP for construction work was issued on 7th November, and this was extended to 17 local and regional contractors, and explained that the homes of a number of children attending the schools will be rebuilt.