Cellular services provider Digicel Group has forged a partnership with a Nasdaq-listed communications solutions provider, Extended Systems, to offer corporate clients a range of telecommunication services.

In a press statement yesterday, Digicel said that the partnership would offer corporate clients the Extended Systems One Bridge mobile platform that would enable corporate customers to streamline their business operations through mobile technology.

Digicel said that partnership followed "an in-depth analysis of leading enterprise mobility providers" and that it would offer the Extended Systems One Bridge mobile platform across its current network of seven Caribbean islands. Among them: Jamaica, St Lucia, Grenada, Aruba, St Vincent/Grenadines, Barbados and The Caymans.

"The system provides solutions that make it possible for companies to mobilise critical enterprise applications such as e-mail, field service, sales force automation and customer relationship management," said the press statement.

According to Digicel Group commercial director Sarah Gill, Caribbean corporate customers would be able to "seamlessly manage access to important business information on their wireless mobile devices" once the system was put in place.

"We are confident that with Extended Systems as a partner, our corporate offerings will continue to grow stronger," she added.

Charles Joseph, president and CEO at Extended Systems, said his company was "excited to be working with the fastest growing mobile provider of telecommunications solutions in the Caribbean".

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