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Digicels Haiti Market.

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  • #2
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    He'll have his work cut out with the fixed line market.


  • #3
    5ftGiant
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭5ftGiant


    qrrgprgua wrote: »
    O'Brien holds the whole market.. I think this is a monopoly?

    looks like he is going to make a lot of money monopolising the populations cell phone usage.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0403/1224314297012.html

    whether its monopoly or not, he still does good for every country he invests in so I say its a good thing


  • #4
    CageWager
    Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭CageWager


    Don't worry, I'm sure it's all above board.


  • #5
    _AVALANCHE_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭_AVALANCHE_


    Phone markets are bent over that end of the world.

    http://www.forbes.com/profile/carlos-slim-helu/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim#Criticism


  • #6
    Dostoevsky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Dostoevsky


    CageWager wrote: »
    Don't worry, I'm sure it's all above board.

    How anybody could impugn the character of such a great patriotic tax-paying Irishman like Denis O'Brien is beyond me. After all the wonderful things he has done with his money since the good old days of Michael Lowry being Minister for Communications. We wouldn't even have mobile phones without him. When there was a shortage of kitchens in Ireland, it was Denis O'Brien who heroically removed his own kitchen from his €10 million house at No. 6 Raglan Road to give to the poor of Dublin. Such selflessness. And all the wonderful charity work he unassumingly did in the background with the Special Olympics seeking no public recognition ....

    Next people will be saying there's something seriously dodgy about this week's revelations regarding Mr O'Brien's intended purchase of Siteserv: Firm claims it was excluded from Siteserv sale to O'Brien


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  • #7
    Dostoevsky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Dostoevsky


    _AVALANCHE_ wrote: »
    Phone markets are bent over that end of the world.

    http://www.forbes.com/profile/carlos-slim-helu/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim#Criticism

    Yeah, but our Denis has gone over there especially to make said markets more ethical, particularly concerning the tendering process and to ensure that people who win lucrative telecommunications deals do not scam the relevant countries out of hundreds of millions in taxes.

    Many years ago our great former leader, Bertie Ahern, suggested we establish an honours system like Britain's. Denis O'Brien's noble efforts to help poorer countries is living proof of the great people such a system could honour.


  • #8
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Good on him. Glad to see an Irishman doing well.


  • #9
    myflipflops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    _AVALANCHE_ wrote: »
    Phone markets are bent over that end of the world.

    A lot more than phone markets are corrupt. I highly recommend people read 'Caribbean Time Bomb: The United States' Complicity in the Corruption of Antigua' for a great insight into the disgraceful workings of one of the countries of the region.


  • #10
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,626 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    How is he doing in Jamaica ?

    Seriously how much do calls / text cost there ?


    And it's a bit rich considering the % of copper that eircom still own

    If you have ADSL eircom are most likely to be getting a cut


  • #11
    Agent P
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭Agent P


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Seriously how much do calls / text cost there ?


    On prepay calls are about €0.10 and texts are €0.03.


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