Contending that the matter was not properly before it and was one with wider implications for the Guyanese public and the telecoms sector throughout the region, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has declined to address the question of whether GT&T’s telecommunications monopoly here is illegal.
The issue had been raised in the arguments by James Samuels before the CCJ alleging that the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) had breached its contract with him by interrupting its Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) because he was using it to make internet calls. The CCJ on Monday ruled in Samuels’ favour that GT&T was in breach of its contract but didn’t address the monopoly issue.
The monopoly has been a subject of heated discussions here for many years and mobile services provider Digicel has
