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Caribbean-first investigation of telecommunications, broadband, mobile networks, spectrum, data infrastructure, competition, resilience and digital sovereignty.
Editorially reviewed · Updated August 30, 2026
Caribbean digital sovereignty depends on affordable and resilient connectivity, transparent licensing, credible competition, secure infrastructure and public evidence that promised networks are actually authorised, financed, built and serving people.
Curated authority pathway
Begin with the central investigation, then continue into its companion reporting and audio.
Essential analysis
A Caribbean Issues investigation tests 0Wire Communications’ Eastern Caribbean telecom promise against licensing records, company filings, financing disclosures and verifiable network milestones.
Start with thisVerify the exact operating entity, licence category and status, frequency authorisation, committed financing, commissioned sites, published prices, working customer channel and independent service evidence. An announcement or application is not the same as an operating network.
Evidence: Dominica Telecommunications Act · Dominica Licence Classification Notice · ECTEL
An MVNO sells service over another carrier's radio network and follows the applicable virtual-operator licensing path. A mobile network operator builds or controls radio infrastructure and requires the relevant individual licence and legal authority to use spectrum.
Evidence: Dominica Telecommunications Act · Dominica Licence Classification Notice
Resilience requires geographically appropriate network design, backup power, diverse backhaul, local maintenance and hurricane recovery plans. Accountability requires current public registers, clear ownership, measurable rollout obligations, published service terms and evidence of performance.
Evidence: ECTEL · Grenada NTRC
Digital Infrastructure & Telecommunications
A Caribbean Issues investigation tests 0Wire Communications’ Eastern Caribbean telecom promise against licensing records, company filings, financing disclosures and verifiable network milestones.
Read or listenPodcast
A deep dive into JetBlue's decision to end nonstop service to Antigua, using that single route cancellation as the entry point into a much larger question: how exposed is the Caribbean's tourism economy to decisions made in boardrooms it has no seat at?This episode unpacks how the region's dependence on foreign carriers creates structural risk — airlines optimize for shareholder returns and network-wide restructuring, not the developmental needs of small-island states. We look at why extra-regional connectivity to North America has nearly doubled over the past decade and a half while intra-Caribbean connectivity has collapsed by close to a third, leaving tourism-dependent islands better linked to distant gateways than to each other. And we ask what it would take for CARICOM governments to move from negotiating airlift one country at a time to bargaining as a bloc — before the next route disappears. Companion article: " The Quiet Airlift ," available now on Caribbean Issues. To hear more, visit caribbeanissues.substack.com
Read or listenThese sources support the hub's direct answers. Individual investigations maintain their own fuller evidence ledgers.