A Denis O’Brien interview is a rare thing. It’s even rarer for O’Brien to sit in front of a microphone for two hours with a couple of beers. What follows are selected highlights from O’Brien’s interview with the Telecoms.com podcast. He chats amiably and frankly about his rise in the industry, Digicel’s financial battles, the trouble with telecoms, and more besides. How he found himself in the Caribbean: “The Jamaican government in early 2000 advertised in the FT, inviting people to an auction. An American company and ourselves went to the auction, we paid $47.5 million dollars for a licence.…

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