CABLE & WIRELESS Jamaica, the country's only full service telecommunications provider, has re-entered the market for the provision of handsets for fixed line residential customers with an extensive range of specially designed units.
The company, through its HomeFone brand, has begun marketing and selling an exciting new range of sophisticated, high tech and feature-rich phones through their communications stores in Montego Bay, New Kingston and Spanish Town.
The range includes instruments specially designed for visually and hearing impaired customers. The instruments for the visually-impaired feature larger-than-normal keys on the dial pad. Keys also render digits in Braille with special speed dial buttons for the police and emergency services. Instruments for the hearing-impaired allow for the attachment of hearing aides and extra loud volume controls.
Some sets in the new range of fixed line instruments also come with polyphonic ring tones and hands-free speakers. The range of phones also includes high-end portable instruments which functions so far from their base station as to render them virtually mobile, while allowing for as many as ten wireless extensions and privacy safeguards.
Cable and Wireless' senior vice president for residential services, Evan Garricks, says the introduction of these handsets will add new dimensions to the fixed line market, and is in keeping with renewed consumer interest in the service and the current wave of advertising.
