BBC News article : Trinidad’s music pirates of the Caribbean.
Tag: trinidad, tobago
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TTCS online Calendar
An online calendar of TTCS meetings/activities can be found at http://www.ttcsweb.org/calendar/. It also shows the public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago.
The TTCS first meeting for 2008 : TTCS pizzalime, January 9th, 2008 at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout.
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More street map information for Trinidad added to Google Maps
Even more updated street maps of Trinidad on Google Maps since October 17, 2007. There is now street data for nearly the western side of Trinidad and the original locations mentioned in the October 17th, 2007 blog post have more street details added.
See for yourself. Check out the Google Maps of :
- Trinidad
- Port of Spain
- Diego Martin
- San Fernando
- Gasparillo
- Chaguanas
- University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The street data for Google is provided by Lead Dog Consulting which also has a webpage where you can view street maps of Trinidad AND Tobago
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TTCS tech meeting on Saturday 17th November 2007- Drupal
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society will be having a tech meeting on Saturday November 17th, 2007 from 1 to 5pm at Engineering Consultants at 112A Edward Street, Port of Spain (corner of Oxford and Edward Street).
This meeting will be a look at Drupal, one of the leading open source content manangement systems for websites. Presenting this topic is Shivan Jaikaran, a Drupal developer for nearly three years who has contributed several modules to this content management system.
Anyone interested in this topic are welcome to attend. A contribution of $20 towards refreshments is expected. See you there!
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TATT auction of radio spectrum for Broadband Wireless Access services
The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) recently conducted an auction on October 5th, 2007 for radio frequency spectrum in the 700 MHz, 12 GHz and 28 GHz frequency bands for the delivery of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) services.
Out of five companies which were pre-qualified to participate in the auction, three companies took part :
- Green Dot Limited.
- Telstar Cable System Limited.
- Open Telecom Limited
The other two companies which qualified but didn’t take part were Sigma Communications Limited and Columbus Communications Trinidad Limited. The auction was held at the Hotel Normandie with PricewaterhouseCoopers as the auction manager.
The results of the auction were as follows (quoting from the October 5th, 2007 TATT press release (PDF ; 35K)) :
- “In the auction of spectrum blocks in the 12 GHz band, there was one (1) Winning Bidder. The Winning Bidder is Telstar Cable System Limited, who won all twelve (12) blocks in this band at TT$ 650,000.00 per block per annum. The annual licence fee for Telstar Cable System Limited will therefore be TT$ 7.8 million per annum in total, for spectrum awarded in 12 GHz band.
- In the auction of spectrum blocks in the Lower 700 MHz band, there was one (1) Winning Bidder. The Winning Bidder is Green Dot Limited, who won three (3) blocks in this band at TT$ 177,000.00 per block per annum. The annual licence fee for Green Dot Limited will therefore be TT$ 531,000.00 per annum in total, for spectrum awarded in Lower 700 MHz band,
- In the auction of spectrum blocks in the 28 GHz band, there was no Winning Bidder and, as a result, no award of spectrum blocks.”
Green Dot and Telstar Cable System Ltd are eligible for the spectrum license for a period of 10 years.
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Updated street maps of Trinidad in Google Maps
(Update 24 June 2008 : see Google Mapmaker enabled for Trinidad and Tobago )
(Update : 23 October 2007 : added links to hybrid versions and image of hybrid Google map of Port of Spain)
Just noticed that there are updated street maps in Google Maps for Trinidad. The street maps are more detailed in certain areas of Trinidad (sorry Tobago, no updated satellite imagery or street maps so far) and some of the streets are labelled along with several landmarks such as schools, shopping centers and police and fire stations. Neat stuff!
Check out the Google Maps of :
- Trinidad
- Port of Spain. Hybrid version of Port of Spain showing satellite imagery with street names.
- Diego Martin. Hybrid version of Diego Martin showing satellite imagery with street names.
- San Fernando. Hybrid version of San Fernando showing satellite imagery with street names.
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Fastforward : “ICT and me” brochure
There is a new brochure on the Fastforward website called “ICT and me” (PDF ; 6.6 MB).
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Libworld – Trinidad and Tobago
The Caribbean Librarian blogger has written a Libworld – Trinidad and Tobago article on Infobib.de. According to Infolib.de, “Libworld is a series of postings in which guest authors introduce the library and library related blogs of their particular country.”
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TTCS pizzalime on Wednesday October 10th, 2007
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society will be having a pizzalime on Wednesday October 10th, 2007 from 6pm at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout.
Come join us as we eat and chat about :
* the launch of Blink Broadband from TSTT and broadband from Flow
* the 2006 market report on the telecommunications sector by the Telecom Authority of Trinidad and Tobago
* the recent TTCS Software Freedom Day event on September 15th, 2007
* person charged under the Computer Misuse Act for hacking the Attorney General’s Internet account
* Telecom Authority charges Laqteland more…
Persons interested in computers and related technology are welcome to attend. A contribution of $30 towards refreshments is expected.
Copies of TTCS OSSWIN CD and Ubuntu will be available for $20 TT. See you there!
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TATT publishes 2006 Annual Market Report on Telecommunications and Broadcasting Sectors.
The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) has published a market report on the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors in Trinidad and Tobago for 2006.
Some of the interesting stats :Re: mobile market :
- “As at December 2006, the estimated number of mobile subscribers totaled 1,654,921. This represents an extra-ordinary increase of 730,862 or 79.1 per cent over the previous year. Of this total, 1,494,986 were prepaid customers while other 159,935 were postpaid.”
- Mobile revenues for 2006 totaled TT$1.64 billion, of which prepaid customers accounted for TT$1.45 billion while postpaid customers contributed TT$191 million.
Re: fixed line phone services –
- For the year ending December 31, 2006, the total gross revenues earned from fixed line subscribers amounted to TT$780 million. Of this amount, residential customers accounted for TT$405.7 million. Revenues from business customers on the other hand, accounted for TT$ 374.3 million.
- There were 325,549 subscribers of fixed line telephone service at the end of 2006.
Re: Public International telecom services,
- the total outgoing traffic from Trinidad and Tobago, for 2006, was estimated to be 183.4 million minutes while incoming traffic was approximately 480.9 million minutes.
- Gross revenue for international traffic for the year ending December 2006, was estimated at TT$145.1 million for outgoing calls and TT$196.7 million for incoming calls.
Re: Internet Market :
- “As at December 2006, there were eleven major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Trinidad and Tobago: TSTT, CableNett Limited, Carib-Link Limited, Cari Direc, Caribbean Interactive Limited, Illuminat Limited, InterServ Limited, Lisa Communications Limited, Opus Network Limited, WOW Net (2001) Limited and Green Dot Limited.” Hmmm…….Opus Networx stopped dial up access since Jan 2006 and there is no mention of Columbus Communications formerly CCTT or Caribtel.
- As at December 2006, the total estimated number of Internet subscribers in Trinidad and Tobago is 81,064.
- The demand for high speed access to Internet services has increased in Trinidad and Tobago in 2006 to 20,613 with 14,246 residential connections and 6,367 business connections.
- the number of Internet users in Trinidad and Tobago stood at 15.4 per 100 inhabitants for 2006.
Lots of interesting information, check it out…….
Download : TATT Annual Market Report 2006 (PDF ; 236K)
