LIME - Turks and Caicos Islands
LIME (Turks and Caicos Islands) uses 1 GSM band, 1 UMTS band, and 1 LTE band. Find out if your unlocked phone or mobile device will work with LIME (Turks and Caicos Islands). See the tables below for details.
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LIME, which was a communications provider owned by Cable & Wireless Communications, operated in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The company provided a range of services including mobile telecommunications under the bmobile brand until it was rebranded as LIME in 2008. LIME offered mobile services including 3G and 4G across various smartphone platforms such as Samsung and Apple.
In 2015, Cable & Wireless Communications decided to adopt the brand name FLOW for its consumer-facing business, replacing the LIME name. As a result, the LIME name was fully discontinued by May 2016. Today, the telecommunications services in the Turks and Caicos Islands are primarily provided by Flow, which offers fixed and mobile telephone services, digital TV, and fiber internet services.
Frequency Bands
GSM
| Name | Interface | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 850 MHz | GSM | LIME Turks and Caicos Islands uses the GSM 850 MHz frequency band. The deployment date is not specified. |
UMTS
| Name | Interface | Description |
|---|---|---|
| B5 (850 MHz) | UMTS | LIME Turks and Caicos Islands uses the UMTS B5 (850 MHz) frequency band. |
LTE
| Name | Interface | Description |
|---|---|---|
| B17 (700 MHz bc) | LTE | LIME Turks and Caicos Islands uses the LTE B17 (700 MHz bc) frequency band for its mobile broadband services. This band operates in the 700 MHz range, specifically between 704-716 MHz for the uplink and 734-746 MHz for the downlink, with a duplex spacing of 30 MHz. The band is known for its excellent propagation characteristics, allowing signals to penetrate buildings and cover larger geographic areas with less infrastructure. It is used in carrier aggregation configurations with other bands, such as B2, B4, and B5, to enhance network performance and capacity. |
