Kingston, Jamaica – Wednesday, December 3^rd: Digicel, the fastest growing mobile operator in the Caribbean and new entrant to the Central American market, today announced the availability of its prepaid service for BlackBerry® smartphones.

Initially launching in Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad & Tobago and the Cayman Islands, the prepaid service will be available to both new and existing BlackBerry smartphone users across all Digicel markets in the Caribbean and Central America over the coming months.

The prepaid service is affordable, easy to use and available for every BlackBerry smartphone in Digicel’s offering. Customers can subscribe to a weekly or monthly plan via text message - providing they have sufficient credit. There is no activation fee for this service. Towards the end of the subscription period, customers receive a text message reminding them to top up their account for the service to continue.

Digicel Group Products Director, Ralf Ohlhausen, commented, “Business users have long enjoyed the benefits of the BlackBerry wireless solution, but now with our innovative prepaid service, the benefits of a host of services like web browsing, email, instant messaging and Facebook are open to all our customers – both postpaid and prepaid.

“Designed to suit the varying lifestyles of our customers, users can sign up to it whenever they like and only pay for the period of time they need”.

For further information on the Prepaid service for BlackBerry smartphones, please visit www.digicelgroup.com