Telephones (Haiti country code: 509)
Despite low literacy levels (52%) and wide-ranging poverty, Haiti managed to increase its cell phone coverage rate from 6% to 30% in just one year (May 2006 to May 2007). Haiti is now the driving force in the cell phone growth rate in the Caribbean. Radio still remains the primary information medium for most Haitians.
un venditore ambulante di ricariche telefonicheTelephones - mobile cellular: 2.4 million (May 2007) or 30% coverage rate.
There are three major cell phone providers in Haiti: Digicel, Comcel, and Haitel.
Comcel (Voilà), a subsidiary of Trilogy International Partners, LLC, was a TDMA company which launched its service in September 1999.
Haitel, an independent company founded by Franck Ciné, a Haitian-American and former MCI/Worldcom executive, adopted CDMA technology.
Digicel Haiti, an affiliate of the pan-Caribbean Digicel Group won Haiti's first GSM license in June 2005 and launched service in early 2006
WIND ha accordo roaming con Digicel, Haiti
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Roaming *124*
Premi invio e resta in attesa senza riagganciare: Wind ti richiamerà mettendoti in comunicazione con il numero desiderato.
Basta rispondere e sei subito in linea.
Per chiamare un numero di rete fissa ad esempio un numero di Roma, digita *124*+3906123...#invio.
Se invece vuoi chiamare un cellulare, ad esempio un numero Wind, digita *124*+39328123456#invio.
Attenzione alle tariffe WIND !!!
Costo delle chiamate effettuate
da zona 4 (Haiti) ---> a zona UE 4 euro min (e viceversa)
Costo delle chiamate ricevute
da zona UE ---> a zona 4 (Haiti) 2 euro min
Spedire un SMS
da zona 4 (Haiti) ---> a zona UE 1 euro
Ricevere SMS è gratuito
VOIP Providers
In May 2006, Comcel and Haitel had a total of about 500,000 subscribers - that is a cell phone coverage rate of 6% for a population of 8.2 million.
Then, Digicel entered the market in May 2006, and revolutionized the cell phone industry with low prices and attractive services so that after just one year of operations, May 2006-May 2007, Digicel went from zero to 1.4 millions subscribers.
The other two cell phone providers, Comcel and Haitel, responded by cutting their prices and offering new services such as Voila, a GSM service by Comcel, and CDMA 2000 by Haitel. As a result, Comcel and Haitel increased their subscribers from 500,000 to 1 million. That's a grand total of 2.4 millions cell phone subscribers in Haiti. For a total population of about 8.2 million people, that's a cell phone coverage rate of 30% (a 5-fold increase in just one year).
In May 2007, Digicel started offering two Blackberry services with Internet, one for enterprises and one for individuals.
Telephones - main lines in use: 115,060 (2005)
Télécommunications d'Haiti S.A.M. (Teleco), a 98%-government owned company, has a monopoly on the provision of landline services throughout the country. Teleco has been constantly hobbled by political interference which has affected its performance.
Teleco is currently undergoing privatization.
Telephone system:
Domestic facilities are barely adequate.
International facilities are slightly better
domestic: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk service
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
APPENDIX
Dual, Tri, or Quad Band GSM Phone? | |
 | Quad band GSM are becoming more common and less expensive. Increasingly, a quad band phone should be your first choice of phone. |
Two frequency bands are used by GSM services in the US. Two different frequency bands are used by GSM services elsewhere in the world.
Ideally, you'd want a phone that can work on all four bands - commonly called a quad-band phone. But these are still rare and expensive
GSM cell phones use frequencies within four different frequency bands :
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850 MHz (824.2 - 848.8 MHz Tx; 869.2 - 893.8 MHz Rx)
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900 MHz (880-2 - 914.8 MHz Tx; 925.2 - 959.8 MHz Rx)
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1800 MHz (1710.2 - 1784.8 MHz Tx; 1805.2 - 1879.8 MHz Rx)
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1900 MHz (1850.2 - 1909.8 MHz Tx; 1930.2 - 1989.8 MHz Rx)
Although 850 and 900, and 1800 and 1900 are very close together, a phone that works in one frequency band unfortunately can not also work in the frequency band next to it unless added as a specific extra frequency band.
What about 800 MHz? Is this a fifth band?
Some people refer to the 850 MHz band as being the 800 MHz band. This is incorrect. The actual frequencies in the band are closer to 850 MHz and the standardized naming convention as promulgated by the GSM Association is to refer to this band as '850 MHz'.
If you see someone referring to a phone with 800 MHz service, they probably are simply mistaken and mean to refer to the 850 MHz band.
Which frequencies are used internationally?
GSM was originally developed in Europe, and only came to the US recently.
Initially, all countries with GSM service used the 900 MHz band. In the past few years, service providers have increasingly been adding 1800 MHz coverage, due to congestion in the 900 MHz band.
When the US started to use GSM, a few other countries with very close links to the US chose to copy the US and use the same frequencies that the US used - first 1900 MHz, and in a few cases, 850 MHz also.
Almost without exception, all international countries that use the non-US international frequency bands have 900 MHz service, and many have some 1800 MHz service as well.
All international countries that have the US frequency bands have 1900 MHz service. A very few might also have some 850 MHz service.
Which frequencies do you need when traveling internationally?
Refer to the table below to get a feeling for which countries use which frequency bands. For a more expanded set of information, complete with network coverage maps, refer to the official GSM Association's website.
Quad band phones: Motorola V3 Razr (but not V300)
V180 (note - some people report that Cingular
disables the 1800MHz band, but in theory
these phones should have four bands)V220
V330
V400
V500 / V501 / V505 / V525 / V551 / V555
V600 / V620
NB All tri-band phones obviously (?) support three different frequency bands. But they may differ in their choice of which three of the four bands they support.
The two common variations are :
900/1800/1900 - Excellent internationally and very good in the US
850/1800/1900 - Excellent in the US but not very good internationally
A look ahead - five and six band phones?
Phones that support new high speed data services - so called '3G' (as in 'third generation') phones will generally have the high speed data service on yet another band; typically 2100 MHz.
The market for high speed data services is currently still evolving, with several different technologies, each incompatible with each other, being offered by different service providers. We'll comment more on 3G issues when things stabilize into a clearer picture.
Frequency Bands by Country
(Looking for a country not on this list? Ask, and we'll add it.)
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Note - this table contains data believed to be accurate and current as of Oct, 2007. You should verify any data that is essential to your choice of phone, rather than relying solely on this data.
