Prime Minister Sam Hinds says plans for the state-run National Communications Net-work (NCN) to be given satellite uplink capabilities were dashed by the opposition-led budget cut this year but critics say this occurred after the Learning Channel—for which the government is paying TVG for satellite services—was already set up.
Under a five-year contract brokered in 2010, government is paying TVG $3.6 million per month in a bundled package for services, inclusive of the up-linking cost to the NSS-806 satellite on behalf of the Guyana Learning Channel.
Stabroek News asked Hinds last Wednesday whether any entity other than the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) had the capability to provide uplinks. “I think many people could do it [the uplink] but I heard at one time that at the time when they
