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Offices of Cable & Wireless on Half-Way Tree Road.
CABLE & WIRELESS Mobile is to become the first mobile services provider in Jamaica to offer commercially a GPRS roaming service in the United States when it launches this service today.
Cable & Wireless' GPRS Roaming will allow its postpaid mobile customers in Jamaica to access the Internet and data services from compatible handsets and laptop computers while in areas of the USA served by its GPRS roaming partner T-Mobile.
Until August 1, 2004 mobile customers will be able to use Cable & Wireless' GPRS roaming free of charge.
T-Mobile customers from the USA will also be able to use their handsets to access data and Internet services while in Jamaica.
Cable & Wireless' GPRS Roaming will allow customers to access the Internet from specific handsets such as Blackberry devices.
GPRS is the abbreviation for Global Packet Radio System.
