The legacy carrier in Trinidad & Tobago, TSTT, is finding itself forced to provide a VoIP service because its small "call centers" were pretty much taking away its international business. Rather than paying telco rates for international calls, people in that Caribbean nation were going to the call centers and paying $1/minute--still high, but cheaper. TSTT tried to shut down the call centers, then to offer its own $1 rate; neither measure worked very well. Now TSTT is upgrading its network with equipment from Calix, which will let it get into the VoIP business. No financial details were revealed, but TSTT did say the upgrade would let them provide IPTV [1] sometime down the road.
For more information about Trinidad's VoIP upgrade:
- read this article [2] from Breaking News
Links:
[1] http://www.fierceiptv.com
[2] http://news.bn.gs/article.php?story=2006112011231531