Dr. the Honourable Edmond A. Mansoor View photo »

The introduction of inet, an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Internet service has repositioned and reestablished the Antigua Public Utilities Authority APUA Telephones at the forefront of the technological revolution in Antigua and Barbuda.

This has come from Information Minister Senator the Hon. Dr. Edmond Mansoor during the launch of the product. He said that the unmistakable economic and technical advantages of the digital subscriber line technology, inet as APUA Telephones has called it, has become enormously popular as a broadband access system for data transmission in recent years.

"Due to the ever larger data volumes on the public and private networks, more and more carriers are turning to technologies that can deliver high bandwidths, even in the access area," he said.

The Minister further stated that Inet is the optimal choice, since it supports both analog telephone lines and Digital lines.

He noted that as the internet continues to gain rapidly in popularity, many of today's telephone networks are reaching their limits under modem connections to Internet service providers (ISPs), often for hours at a time. He said there is a growing need to unburden networks by providing broadband DSL connections, some of which already are in place.

Advantages of Inet include:

• leaving your internet connected open and still use the phone line for voice calls.
• The speed is much higher than a regular modem.
• I-Net doesn't necessarily require new wiring; it can use the phone line you already have.
• APUA Telephones also provides the modem as part of the installation.

In congratulating APUA Telephones on the launch of Inet, Minister Mansoor stated that he is confident that this will be one of the "gap closing" mechanisms of ending the digital divide in Antigua and Barbuda.

We produce in full, the text of Minister Mansoor's address at the launch:Read Speech