landline services internet service provider b2b b2g fate acquired by cable & wireless communications founded 2004 headquarters barbados key people brendan paddick ceo parent cable & wireless communications liberty global website www.columbuscommunications.com columbus communications is a cable television telephone and broadband speed internet service provider . operating as a regional media company columbus is currently financially based in barbados and provides services in grenada jamaica trinidad and tobago cura ao antigua and barbuda saint lucia and saint vincent and the grenadines . the company s operations in antigua and barbuda is branded as karib cable while its operations in other countries are branded as flow . the company formerly held a 71 % share in cable bahamas before divesting of that holding in 2010 . contents 1 history 2 management & executive team 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit columbus entered the cura ao retail market in january 2010 through the acquisition of cura ao cable tv nv a fledgling start up that held video and internet concessions but had yet to reach the commercial stage . 1 by the fall of 2010 a new fully digital video head end was constructed providing flow customers access to more than 250 video and audio channels by far the most comprehensive television service in cura ao . in addition flow offers residential broadband internet packages ranging from an entry level service of 5 mbit s up to 100 mbit s. in partnership with its sister company columbus business solutions they also provide a range of corporate data services including data storage disaster recovery ip services hosting and business continuity services . 2 the company was then officially acquired by cable & wireless communications the parent company of another fellow telecommunications company in the caribbean named lime . the cost of the acquisition was usd 1.85 billion dollars . 3 the company has now become a fully owned entity of cwc . flow has now become the consumer facing brand for the new company across all of cwc s former lime . it offers quad play services i.e. mobile fixed voice fixed home broadband and television . management & executive team edit chairman and chief executive officer brendan paddick president and coo paul w. scott chief financial officer maxwell parsons c.a. see also edit arcos 1 cfx cable system fibralink cable system references edit cable television on curacao curacao connected internet social media and tech related news . retrieved 2015 06 02 . p n. columbus communications flow curacao . www.columbuscommunications.com . retrieved 2015 06 02 . cable & wireless communications cwc columbus merger finalized . www.cwc.com . retrieved 2015 06 02 . external links edit official website columbus networks columbus communications expands operations to grenada 14 april 2008 columbus to run fibre optic cable from colombia to jamaica jamaica observer 25 may 2007 flow gets nod on all island jamaica cable licence jamaica observer 01 april 2007 alcatel and columbus communications inaugurate fibralink submarine network in jamaica press release 5 april 2006 columbus sets sail in t & t trinidad and tobago guardian newspaper 16 february 2006 alcatel to deploy a new submarine optical cable network to serve jamaica press release 7 june 2005 new world network completes sale to columbus communications press release 12 september 2005 columbus communications acquires new world network 15 september 2005 john risley and michael lee chin the cable guys canadian business online 5 december 2005 columbus communications flow target of piracy by hbo latin america ttgapers.com 11 may 2007 v t e cable satellite and other speciality television providers in the americas v t e cable satellite and other specialty television providers in canada terrestrial and satellite satellite bell tv shaw direct telus satellite tv cable major1 bell cablevision for val d or qc cogeco ontario quebec eastlink atlantic northern ontario 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