Number of Digicel subscribers hits 4 million

DIGICEL, the mobile phone company owned by Denis O’Brien, says subscriber numbers across the 22 countries where it operates reached four million at the end of last year.

The figure is more than double the number of subscribers it had at the beginning of 2005 as it launched in new markets across the Caribbean and South America.

Digicel said that it now had more than one million customers in Haiti having only launch in the country in May 2006.