Columbus entered the Curaçao retail market in January 2010 through the acquisition of Curaçao Cable TV NV, a fledgling start up that held video and internet concessions, but had yet to reach the commercial stage. 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 Curaçao. 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. 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 US$1.85 Billion dollars. 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==