DIGICEL yesterday announced that it acquired a controlling stake in Netxar Technologies, a systems integrator in the Caribbean region.

“Effective immediately, the two companies will work together to achieve even greater business success and market share as the region’s newest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) powerhouse,” said a press statement issued yesterday. “With corporate and public sector customers looking for the best and most advanced ICT systems and processes — whilst also keeping a keen eye on cost control — the Digicel Netxar combination will see customers optimising their ICT infrastructure and saving money.

Digicel claims that to date its offering of ICT solutions to businesses across the region, which it began in 2007, has enabled Caribbean companies to attain greater efficiencies and to lower ICT spend by 30-40 per cent.

“Since we started focusing on delivering ICT solutions to Caribbean corporate customers in 2007, we have made big inroads and are proud to serve the Caribbean’s biggest business names,” said Kevin White, COO of Digicel Group. “In Jamaica for instance, Digicel serves over 70 per cent of the corporate market.”

President and CEO of Netxar, Frank Santiago, said: “For years, corporate and public sector customers have been searching for a business partner who can deliver both world class telecommunication services and ICT solutions. Now, customers will benefit from technology solutions that leverage their IT framework as a competitive advantage while reducing operational costs and increasing productivity.

“The support and involvement of Digicel which, in ten short years, has had such a positive impact on the Caribbean communications space will see us delivering even better solutions to an even broader range of corporate customers.”

Netxar is based in Puerto Rico and has operations in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

Digicel Group Limited boasts 11 million customers across its 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.