DIGICEL not ruling out investment in local landline service

DIGICEL Chief Executive Officer Gregory Deane

DIGICEL Chief Executive Officer Gregory Deane says the company is not ruling out post-liberalization investment in the country’s domestic landline telephone service though he says that the first order of business once the monopoly comes to an end would be to move to reduce the rates for overseas calls by providing competition in that area. And while Deane has declined to speculate as to the likely  drop in the rates for the overseas service he suggested that DIGICEL could do the same for overseas rates that it did for cellular rates when it became a local service provider.

Deane told Stabroek Business that