Aicent, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a CDMA-based data roaming agreement with Digicel Group, the largest mobile operator in the Caribbean and the first GSM operator in the region to simultaneously offer GSM and CDMA on its mobile network. Digicel is using Aicent’s CRX (CDMA Roaming eXchange) to let business-traveling or vacationing mobile customers with CDMA service from other operators around the world roam onto the Caribbean’s most state-of-the-art mobile network. This roaming agreement lets these travelers enjoy the same benefits from high-speed mobile data services that they use back home.

“There are a growing number of people using CDMA for mobile data services in the region” said Mario Assaad, Digicel Group CTO. “Digicel is using Aicent’s CDMA Roaming eXchange so these foreign visitors can have a fast and reliable high-speed data connection in the Caribbean. With Aicent’s technology, Digicel is opening our state of the art data network to international CDMA subscribers.”

Digicel currently serves more than four million subscribers and maintains operations in 22 markets across the Caribbean as well as El Salvador and Bermuda.

Aicent’s CRX offers mobile operators a highly-scalable solution to address roaming, authentication and network interconnectivity. Aicent’s technology enables mobile operators to support rapidly growing mobile data services and an increasingly mobile user population that often needs to use services on the networks of more than one provider. Aicent’s CRX is a cost-efficient solution that enables the CDMA operators to offer a high-performance worldwide data roaming service with secured private IP network infrastructure and a variety of application level support. Aicent, a pioneer in telecom and data roaming, played a major role in defining the industry’s roaming architecture and requirements.

“Aicent and Digicel both share a commitment to delivering dependable, quality services and a vision that people can get the most utility from their mobile services,” said Shu Gan, vice president of marketing at Aicent. “Digicel is making a name for itself by building the most advanced telecom and datacom network in the Pan Caribbean region. Increasingly, mobile operators that focus on state-of-the art technology and reliable service are turning to Aicent for roaming exchange services to greatly increase the number of countries their customers can get the mobile service they need and expect.”