So it's definitely not just georgetown folks who'll be enjoying the BIMMER FLEX promotions Digicel has taken The Fun & Excitement of BIMMER FLEX To ESSEQUIBO,

Residents of Essequibo gathered at the Anna Regina Community Centre last Saturday for an exciting day of "Bimmer Flex" fun with Guyana's Bigger Better Network....Digicel. Persons traveled from as far as Supernaam and Charity to be part of this excitement, which included a thrilling game of 20/20 cricket, pulsating music, special handset offers and fantastic giveaways.

During this 20/20 Cricket Tournament, South Essequibo faced off with North Essequibo in the first round while Central Essequibo took on Wakenaam. North and Central Essequibo emerged victorious in the first round of the competition and the two battled it out in the final round.

In the end Central Essequibo with their man of the match, Latchman Rohit came out on top winning $100,000 cash, the winning trophy and medals for all the players. North Essequibo left with $50,000 and a trophy.

While, the 20/20 match was truly exciting, the fun did not end there. Residents partied their way into the night to a dynamic mix of new and old music which persons enjoyed to the max. Person expressed their gratitude for the one day event which brought out family and friends from across Essequibo.

"We are so happy that Digicel held this event here in Essequibo. We do not have many entertainment events here so we really enjoyed this one. And of course we love our cricket so that made it even better. I can't wait to win one of the Bimmers," was the sentiment expressed by one young lady.

More fun-filled summer activities are scheduled to be held across Guyana during D' Bimmer Flex promotion.

Digicel Guyana, Marketing Communications Manager, Ramesh Rupchand, says "Digicel is very excited about the upcoming events. We want persons to have lots of fun with us during this summer. School is out and I am sure that families are looking for events that they can enjoy with their children, so all the events that we have planned are family oriented. The next big event we have is another 20/20 Cricket Festival but this time, the excitement goes to Uitvlught."

This year, two fabulous BMW Coupes are available to be won by customers who collect the letters B-I-M-M-E-R. To get these letters, customers have to top up their Digicel account with a $500, $1000 and $2000 Bimmerflex Card, when they scratch the card there will be a letter on the back of each card; collect these letters to spell BIMMER. When these letters are collected, customers instantly win $100,000 cash, plus gain entry to the draw to win one of the two BMW's. In addition to the big car prize, there are other very attractive Bimmer Flex promotion prizes which, includes, (1) BlackBerry Pearl Flip phone giveaway each week and $5000 credit daily shared equally between five (5) lucky Digicel customers.

Meanwhile, Latchana Ramsammy, Roger Nicholas Sookraj, Mervin Persaud and Oliver Barnes have all spelt BIMMER and collected their $100,000 cash. They have also been entered into the draw for the BMWs.

Digicel and Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) subscribers will finally be able to interconnect via Short Messaging Service (SMS) from next month.

A joint release issued yesterday said “Digicel and GT&T are pleased to announce that they have come to an agreement to enable cross-network mobile texting in Guyana”
“Customers of each network will from June 1st, 2009, for the first time, be able to text customers of the other network”, the brief release added.

The issue has been contentious and one which Digicel had been plugging for a long time. GT&T had indicated its willingness to facilitate the move but reportedly had some concerns it wanted to iron out. A senior official within GT&T had said that the agreement was something that the company stood to benefit significantly from but stated that there were issues that had not been properly addressed.

Digicel’s Public Relations Officer Alex Graham told this newspaper that the company was looking to put a release out on the issue but up to press time this release had not been received.

In February, Digicel Chief Executive Officer Gregory Dean told Stabroek Business that his company had found the process of negotiating an interconnection agreement with GT&T “frustrating” and accused GT&T of creating needless hurdles for providing what he called a “basic service”.

He said that as a result of the response of GT&T, his company had consequently decided to set aside an existing draft SMS agreement and seek to address all interconnection (both voice and text) issues with GT&T through a single process. “We are now going to be saying to GT&T that these are all the issues that we have in relation to interconnection and this is how we propose to solve them,” Dean had said.

Dean explained that an understanding between the two companies on the desirability of an SMS agreement had been arrived at more than a year ago.

He said that at that time both sides had said that they needed time “to be technically prepared” for interconnection. In May last year both parties indicated their technical readiness, tests were done and it was established that the system worked, he said.

The CEO disclosed that GT&T then drafted an amendment to the current interconnection agreement dealing with voice traffic which agreement had gone “back and forth” between the two parties to make changes and adjustments.

The CEO said that in December, GT&T sought clarification of some of the changes which DIGICEL had made to the agreement and indicated that it wished to include a further “five or six items” of its own.

”We spent two weeks on the agreement after which we told GT&T that we accepted all of their changes,” He said that after the contract was returned to GT&T that company then said that their lawyers were busy.

Dean said that DIGICEL then told GT&T that it believed that the issue was a simple one and that the company wished to be notified as to whether or not GT&T really wanted an SMS interconnection agreement.

The agreement comes a week after Digicel filed a lawsuit to challenge GT&T’s monopoly on international traffic to and from Guyana.

Source: Stabroek News