Telecom & Utilities in Grand Cayman

From our travel guide

One company has sold Grand Cayman's electricity since 1966: Caribbean Utilities Company holds the sole licence, and there's no shopping around for a cheaper rate. Water works the same way, coming from one of two providers, the government's Water Authority or the privately run Cayman Water Company, depending on where you live; both produce drinking water through reverse osmosis desalination rather than pulling from a reservoir. Your address decides who bills you either way.

Mobile and home internet split between FLOW and Digicel, both running postpaid and prepaid mobile plans plus home broadband, with Logic as a newer fibre-only entrant that's built out coverage to most homes and bundles internet with its own TV and phone service. Between the three, most of the island now has access to fibre-speed internet, a real change from a decade ago.

Hurricane season, June through November, is the stretch when these utilities actually matter most. CUC posts outage and restoration updates through its own channels during storms, and both mobile carriers run generator-backed cell sites, though service can still degrade islandwide after a direct hit. Save CUC's outage line and your carrier's status page before storm season starts, not during the first watch.