Haiti Telecommunication International, S.A. or Haitel is a Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

an mobile and wireless phone and Internet service provider using CDMA technology.

History

Haitel was founded by Franck N. Ciné, a former MCI/Worldcom

MCI Inc.

MCI, Inc. is an American telecommunications subsidiary of Verizon Communications that is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia...

 executive, and started operating in March 1999. It was the first mobile phone company to operate in Haiti until September of the same year with the arrival of Comcel/Voilà

Comcel Haiti

Communication Cellulaire d'Haiti, S.A. or ', now known as Voilà, is a telephone company in Haiti which primarily deals in mobile phone service. It is a subsidiary of US-based Trilogy International Partners.-History:...

, using TDMA

Time division multiple access

Time division multiple access is a channel access method for shared medium networks. It allows several users to share the same frequency channel by dividing the signal into different time slots. The users transmit in rapid succession, one after the other, each using its own time slot. This...

 technology.

In 2006, Haitel enhanced its network to CDMA 2000.