TSTT widens GSM service areas

Five mobile service providers from North America and Europe have signed GSM Roaming agreements with the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT). Cingular West US, Rogers Canada, T-mobile UK, Connect Austria and TME Spain concluded roaming agreements with TSTT, which will go into effect from next Tuesday. The agreements will allow TSTT customers to use their GSM handsets in the areas served by these carriers and reciprocally, customers of these carriers will be able to use their handsets while in TT. In both cases, customers will be billed in their respective home markets.

With the addition of these five carriers, TSTT now has agreements with most of the major mobile companies in Europe, Asia and North America, including AT&T, Vodafone and 02. In the Caribbean, agreements with carriers including Digicel, have increased the capability for roaming in these islands with GSM networks. These include Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, St Lucia, Dominica, St Vincent, Martinique, St Martin and Guadeloupe.