BLUE™ - NOW AVAILABLE ON BLACKBERRY APPCENTRE THROUGH DIGICEL GROUP

March 16th 2011 - BLUE™ - NOW AVAILABLE ON BLACKBERRY APPCENTRE THROUGH DIGICEL GROUP

Contact:

Antonia Graham

Digicel

+1 876 564 1708

antonia.graham@digicelgroup.com

 

 

Natasha Malook

JSM Wireless  

+44 207 368 3382

nmalook@jsmwireless.com.

 

 

BLUE™ - NOW AVAILABLE ON BLACKBERRY APPCENTRE THROUGH DIGICEL GROUP

BLUE™ LIVE WITH THE DIGICEL GROUP

 

London, UK/ Kingston, Jamaica – Wednesday 16th March 2011 – JSM Wireless UK PLC. (“JSM”), a global provider of mobile financial software, announced today that its real-time financial application, Blue™, is available for download from the BlackBerry AppCentre with Digicel Group, the leading mobile network operator in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.

 

Blue™ is a mobile financial software application with a highly intuitive interface that provides users with free, streaming, real-time data from global financial markets including stocks, mutual funds, currencies, commodities, financial futures, oil and precious metals, together with extensive coverage of breaking business news.

 

“We are delighted to be the only financial application to be selected for Digicel’s BlackBerry AppCentre.  This represents a major milestone in our strategy to expand into emerging markets, which we feel present huge potential for our app.  Working with Digicel’s ever-increasing subscriber base, we aim to make Blue™ available to BlackBerry users in Digicel’s 26 markets in the Caribbean and Central America”, stated Niloo Kassam, SVP Global Marketing at JSM.

 

Brian Finn, Digicel Group Commercial Director, comments, “Making Blue™ available for free on the BlackBerry is another example of our commitment to providing our customers with best value mobile services.  By providing access to applications that enable and empower people to manage their financial, business and personal lives more effectively, Digicel is helping to unleash the real power of the BlackBerry to our ever-growing BlackBerry customer base.”

 

Blue™ is available for partners: Banks and Brokers, Mobile Network Operators, handset manufacturers and store operators around the world to market now.  It offers timely access to those who need to track their investments in real-time and at the same time allows partners to provide a value added service to their high value customers.

 

 

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About Digicel Group

After over nine years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has 11.5 million customers across its 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.  The company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.

 

Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions.  Digicel sponsors the West Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel.  In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.

 

Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.

 

In 2004, Digicel developed Digicel Rising Stars – an annual talent show to support aspiring young music artists in the Caribbean.  The show has spanned the Eastern Caribbean, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago ranking as one of the top-rated shows.

 

Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe,

 

Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu.  Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean.

 

Visit www.digicelgroup.com  for more information.

 

About JSM Wireless UK PLC

Its flagship software application, Blue™, enables bankers, brokers, dealers, fund managers, financial advisors, accountants, lawyers, retail investors and anyone exposed to financial markets to view high quality streaming market data over mobile devices.  For more information, please visit www.jsmwireless.com.