Cable cuts cost GT&T US$3.5M between January and June – Mahadeo

Cable sabotage has been the bane of GT&T’s existence

Routine maintenance and build out work to the country’s domestic telecommunications infrastructure has been set back by about five months as a result of pressures being placed on the human and technical resources of GT&T by the need to attend to emergency repairs resulting from cuts in both its copper and fibre optic cable infrastructure.

GT&T’s Chief Executive Officer Yog Mahadeo told Stabroek Business in a recent interview that damage to its cable infrastructure is now sufficiently frequent to require the allocation of considerable human and material resources to restore what, in many instances,