NCN board to discuss reports on satellite uplink equipment

The Board of the National Communica-tions Network (NCN) will be meeting this week to discuss reports that the state television outfit has unused equipment for satellite uplinking, a service which it had contracted out at significant expense.

NCN Chairman Bish Panday told Stabroek News that any comment at the board level into the entity’s possible satellite uplinking capabilities would be premature.

He said that the board is to meet this week when a thorough discussion will be had on recent reports in the Kaieteur News alleging that NCN has been in possession of satellite uplink equipment that lay unused in a storeroom since 2013. The uplink facility was contracted from a