Digicel (Jamaica)

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Digicel, is a Jamaican GSM/UMTS/LTE provider. Their PLMN is 338 05.

2G (GSM)

Digicel has deployed 2G GSM (EDGE) on the E-GSM (900 MHz) band. GSM-1900 (PCS) was refarmed to LTE.

Cell ID Layout (3 Sectors)

BTS are in the format 5xxx.

Sector ID Frequency Band Direction
1 GSM-900 Northeast
2 Southeast
3 West

3G (UMTS)

Digicel has deployed 3G UMTS (DC-HSPA+) on both UMTS Band II and UMTS Band V. Note, UMTS Band II has been refarmed to LTE.

Cell ID Layout (3 Sectors)

Sector ID Frequency Band UARFCN Uplink Downlink PSC Direction
1 Band V

850

4408 836.6 MHz 881.6 MHz a Northeast
2 a+1 Southeast
3 a+2 West

4G (LTE)

Digicel has deployed 4G LTE (LTE-A) on the following bands: 2/4/5/12/17. They also have 256 QAM enabled on the network.

Cell ID Layout (3 Sectors)

Sector ID Frequency Band EARFCN Uplink Downlink Bandwidth PCI Direction
11 Band 12 (Band 17 MFBI)

700

5120 (5790 for MFBI) 710 MHz 740 MHz 10 MHz x Northeast
12 x+1 Southeast
13 x+2 West
21 Band 4

1700/2100

2060 1721 MHz 2121 MHz 20 MHz x Northeast
22 x+1 Southeast
23 x+2 West
31 Band 5

850

2600 844 MHz 889 MHz 10 MHz x Northeast
32 x+1 Southeast
33 x+2 West
41 Band 2

1900

1100 1900 MHz 1980 MHz 20 MHz x Northeast
42 x+1 Southeast
43 x+2 West

Carrier Aggregation

Digicel Supports Carrier Aggregation between Bands 2 & 4 (2A-4A) as well as between Bands 2, 4 & 12 (2A-4A-12A) and 2, 4 & 5 (2A-4A-5A).