Four local companies to be licensed under new telecoms legislation

Stabroek Business has learnt that four local companies have been named in the recently completed draft telecommunications Bill 2010 as entities that will be licensed to provide services under the deregulated telecommunications regime once the Act is passed into law.

The four companies named in the document are E-Networks, Quark Communication, I-Net and Nexlink Communication. Once the draft legislation is passed in the National Assembly the four named companies will be licensed to join the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Digicel as