Dear Editor,
It is just possible that not many ‘customers’ would have noted that their GTT, albeit a monopoly, has applied to the Public Utilities Commission for approval of the following:
1) “to implement bundled packages for its wireline services;
2) to increase wireline access charges; and
3) to increase landline metered charges for intra calls.”
Hopefully in their presentations GTT would specify the various categories of consumers to whom the increases would apply:
i) large corporate businesses
ii) small to medium entrepreneurs
iii) self-employed
iv) pensioners
v) Public Sector Agencies
vi) Foreign Investor Organisations
in order that the respective volumes of services would determine proportionate application of the increases.
Such presentations should encourage the Commission to invite responses of the aforementioned groupings.
Additionally, it would seem reasonable for the PUC to arrange to have examined relevant financial data over a specified period in order to establish justification for the proposed monopolistic charges.
Hopefully, civic-minded accountants, as well as the Auditor General, can be invited to display an interest in such a moral exercise.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
