Government’s posture on spectrum allocation stagnates ICT sector

R K Sharma

Government’s failure over several years to accede to successive requests from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) for “appropriate spectrum allocation” to hasten the creation of third and fourth generation (3G/4G) ICT technology continues to have a significant negative effect on the development of the sector locally, GT&T Chief Executive Officer RK Sharma said.

Speaking at the company’s Annual Media Dinner on Saturday evening, in what, arguably, was his most significant public presentation since assuming office last year, Sharma alluded to two separate presentations – in 2010 and 2013 – for increased bandwidth to press ahead with the