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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DIGICEL INTERNATIONAL MATCHES ANNOUNCED</SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Digicel Partners with local football federations to deliver series of international friendly matches promoting regional football development</SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">March 12th 2007 – Kingston, Jamaica: Digicel has announced today that it is to deliver a series of friendly international football matches across the Caribbean and Central America that Digicel is funding with the objective of further supporting the development of football in the region.</SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The first Digicel International Match is taking place in association with the Jamaica Football Federation and will be between Panama and Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz on March 26th at 8pm in Kingston’s National Stadium. </SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Further match details are to be announced soon which will take place at the end of March, during the FIFA “window”, a time set aside by the game’s governing body for international games. Digicel’s decision to invest further sponsorship funds in football follows the enormous success of the 2007 Digicel Caribbean Cup Final and the Copa de Naciones Digicel 2007, the leading international football tournaments in the Caribbean and Central America respectively. </SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Commenting on the initiative, Group Head of Sponsorship Calum MacDougal said, “After the huge success of the Digicel Caribbean Cup and Copa de Naciones Digicel 2007 we asked players, fans and coaches what more Digicel could do to help support and develop one of our customers most important passions – football. The overwhelming answer we received was to help create more international matches so teams can improve through playing together more often and fans can enjoy more football. In response, we created the concept of “Digicel International Matches” where Digicel helps cover key organizational costs to enable football federations to stage more games”.</SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN>[B]<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Digicel customers in Jamaica will enjoy discounted prices for tickets to the Reggae Boyz vs Panama Digicel friendly on March 26th as fans showing their Digicel handset when buying tickets on the gate will pay only J$300 for bleacher tickets and J$1000 for Grandstand tickets. Digicel will also be providing fan entertainment activities that have proved so popular during the Digicel Caribbean Cup tournaments. </SPAN>
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