Cable & Wireless to be renamed LIME

Just a piece of news off the press. One must wonder about this name LIME (Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment) which C&W wants to change to. Is that the extent of the seriousness they can bring to such an important tool? sounds like all are about entertainment because the only word there that is not a telecommunications service is "Entertainment". Furthermore, look at the acronym????

Don't get me wrong, entertainment is necessary but this is typical of a mentality foisted on us as a people. That is probably how one would market something like Disney World but not a serious telecommunications company.

Leaves one to wonder. Somebody either think we are ignorant or should remain ignorant. What an insult! It's still just about the money. By whatever means necessary. See story below and tell me what you think?

Date Posted: Sunday 21 September, 2008

Executives plan launch before Christmas

By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief-SKNVibes.com

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TELECOMMUNICATIONS Giant Cable and Wireless (C&W) may soon change its brand to the acronym, LIME, which stands for Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment, and should be introducing the new version before the Christmas Season.

According to The Jamaica Observer, C&W had announced that it would be selling off its international operations and a concerted effort is now being made to consolidate the companies’ businesses in the Caribbean.

The newspaper also stated that an internal memo from a C&W executive read: “We spent the day talking about the transformation of our business and the journey that we’ve embarked on to create a strong pan Caribbean business, which customers want to work with and colleagues are proud to work for. More specifically, we spent our time looking in some detail at the next phase of our journey. The phase where we create and introduce a new version of our brand, a fresh approach that signals to colleagues and customers that we’ve changed, that we’ve transformed and that we’re becoming the business they want us to be.

“We’ll be taking this new version of C&W out to market before Christmas. We are going to rename our business. We’re changing our name because the business we’re becoming bears little resemblance to the business we were because we want to show the world how much we’ve changed. Ladies and gentlemen start preparing because Cable & Wireless Caribbean is going to become LIME- Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment. A new name that says what we do, which stands for something, which tells the Caribbean that we’re back and that we mean business.”

The Observer also indicated speculation is rife that América Móvil, which recently acquired MiPhone, would seek to establish a footprint across the region by snapping up C&W’s Caribbean operations.

América Móvil is the fifth largest mobile network operator and the largest corporation in Latin America. It is a Mexican publicly traded wireless communications company and provides services to over 152 million wireless subscribers in the Americas, primarily in Latin America, and the Caribbean as of March 2007 when it acquired 100 percent of Jamaican mobile operator Oceanic Digital, under the brand name MiPhone.

Speaking up: Costly Advertising Traps

Speaking up: Costly Advertising Traps

This is some very interesting information about what can easily be called false advertising of some kind.

Its to do with the free for three minutes package being advertised by Digicel.
Its from Bango's Speaking Up Blog..thanks Rok.

Click on the Underlined heading and have a read and lets hear your comments.

Action is required now.

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