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LIME Makes Major Network Upgrade Investment In Antigua & Barbuda

St. John’s, Antigua – August 18, 2014 – LIME, one of the region’s biggest investors and employers, has continued its network upgrade investment thrust across the region under a major US$1.05b capital investment programme, called Project Marlin. The company will be investing an additional US$14M on network upgrade to advance the economic development of Antigua & Barbuda, help change the lives of people and the fortunes of businesses.

LIME plans to significantly increase its investment in Antigua & Barbuda to the tune of US$14M as it rolls out state-of-the-art Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, HSPA+ (4G) technology, improve wireless broadband services to homes across the island and double the speed currently available.

“As the company that first connected Antigua and Barbuda to the rest of the world, we embrace our responsibility to bring further innovation in technology to your islands,” Phil Bentley, Group CEO said. He also added, “Our network is the platform for the solutions of the future and an enabler to social and economic development.”
In addition to this major network upgrade investment LIME has been the backbone of Antigua & Barbuda through sponsorship and various forms of community development. Our contributions to education, entertainment and other areas of national life amount to over US$400K so far this year. LIME has also collaborated with the government on a number of initiatives, the most recent being the Human Entrepreneurship and Assistive Resource Technologies (HEART) project in which LIME offers iPad Air tablets to all day care and pre-school educators for use in the classroom.

HEART is a multi-faceted, revolutionary ICT project that is designed to positively impact thousands of Antiguans and Barbudans. Over the course of the last twenty nine years, LIME has also been the proud sponsor of the LIME CXC Awards. LIME has also been a long-standing sponsor of the Inter-Secondary School Debate Series since 1986. In the area of entertainment, LIME is currently the platinum sponsor of Antigua and Barbuda’s Carnival the regions greatest summer festival.

Like its numerous sponsorship commitments to the communities it serves, the latest multi-million dollar Marlin project is another tangible demonstration of LIME’s commitment to the socio-economic development of the wider Caribbean and to Antigua and Barbuda in particular.