Jamaica phone company Digicel buys rival in Haiti

The Caribbean mobile phone company Digicel Group says it’s acquired a rival business in Haiti.

The Jamaica-based private group says in a Monday news release that it’s purchased Voila from its parent company, U.S.-based Trilogy International Partners, for an undisclosed amount.

Under the Friday deal, the two companies will continue to run separately.

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Digicel opened its Haiti branch in 2005. It’s since become the country’s biggest employer and has 3.5 million customers.

Its lone competitor is now Natcom, a joint venture created last year between Vietnam’s Viettel and the Haitian government to replace the state-run Teleco.

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