Haitian regulator issues extra spectrum to cellco to help relief efforts

Submitted: February 2, 2010 - 8:54pm
Originally published: February 2, 2010
Last updated: February 2, 2010 - 8:56pm

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Haitian telecoms regulator Conatel has granted 12MHz of additional spectrum in the 850MHz band to local mobile operator Comcel (Voila) to help with relief efforts in the wake of the devastating earthquake last month.

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