Digicel reiterated on Thursday its call for full liberalization of the mobile communications market in Guyana in light of what appears to be further disruption to international calls.
Digicel in a press release said that it does not hold a licence to route international calls over its network, while referring to a statement by the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce regarding complaints about people wishing to call Guyana from the US experiencing difficulties connecting to cell phones on both the networks of Digicel and GT&T.
GT&T, the release noted, holds the sole licence for international calls, and as a result Digicel is forced to route all of its international traffic into and out of Guyana through GT&T’s network.
Digicel also expressed its concern that once again its customers have been experiencing difficulties receiving international calls, following several disruptions last year when the Americas II cable which GT&T uses to route international calls over its network was damaged.
Due to the severity of the outage in May 2007, the Guyana government had granted Digicel a temporary licence to route calls over its own network, which proved a viable alternative to the current agreement, the company said.
Digicel said further that it has already made a considerable investment in developing its own international link to route international calls into and out of Guyana.
