GT&T losing billions on landline service – Mahadeo

Yog Mahadeo

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) says it is losing as much as $80,000 per month on each landline service and will be looking at more economically viable ways to meet the communication needs of residents in the unserved areas.

This was revealed by CEO Yog Mahadeo at a news briefing yesterday where he acknowledged that they were still to come up with an alternative. The company had previously toyed with the fixed wireless system but that has been abandoned as a “dead technology”.

“In the interim though we are looking at doing a lot of wired spread and even areas that do not have coverage presently like the Canals and La Grange, Parfait Harmonie, Tuschen, all of these places do not have