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...island nations and saw just one thing: customers. In 2001, O'Brien had a bit of cash burning a hole in his pocket from the $2.46 billion sale of his first telecom venture, Esat Telecom Group PLC. By chance, he came upon a small notice from the government of Jamaica announcing that it was opening its local phone market--long monopolized by British telecom giant Cable & Wireless--to competition. At the time, Jamaicans had to wait an average 2.5 years for a landline, and only 4% of the population used cell phones because rates were exorbitant and coverage shoddy...
Five years on, Digicel has taken Jamaica by storm. Introducing inexpensive rates and phones and improved service, the company signed on more than 100,000 subscribers within 100 days of setting up shop. Today, more than 82% of Jamaica's 2.7 million residents use cell phones, and 70% of them are Digicel customers...
...down Ethiopia's application for the Sidamo and Harar beans, saying the names are generic, but it did grant Yirgacheffe a trademark in August. Do governments frequently trademark native products? It's not uncommon, but they more frequently use geographic certification to brand everything from orange juice to cheeses. Jamaica has achieved great success with its Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, which is registered with a certification mark in the U.S. Starbucks says it supports a certification program for Ethiopian coffees, but not trademarks...
...were tryouts for Dancehall Queen II. The latest of these dances has been the “Dutty Wine,” popularized by Tony Matterhorn’s hit of the same name. The video is straightforward: the opening scene sets the action at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 10:05, any given night. Tony Matterhorn and a selector (what Americans would call a DJ) are the only two men in a club otherwise filled with women. The women do the dutty wine, then have a dutty wine competition. None of the dancing in the video is particularly impressive, and much...
Ganeshananthan, whose parents are Sri Lankan, said she her advisor, visiting lecturer Jamaica Kincaid, encouraged her to publish the thesis...