GT&T has some reservations with Telecoms Bill

CHIEF Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), R.K. Sharma on Wednesday reiterated that his company welcomes the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector, and is confident this will come about very soon.Sharma, asked by reporters about the process and the fact that the issue will again come up in the National Assembly before the parliament goes into recess, stated that the company is looking forward to the return of the Telecoms Bill to the parliament.
The telephone company CEO, however, pointed out that GT&T had some concerns with aspects of the bill and that was communicated to the Select Committee. Sharma said that because of the nature of the work of the Select Committee, the company would not want to release any details with respect to the concerns raised by the company.
Sharma told reporters that he had debated in his mind whether he should pronounce on the concerns raised at the level of the Select Committee and came to the conclusion that it was a bad idea. However, he would be speaking on these concerns as soon as the committee makes its presentation to the National Assembly.
He did, however, acknowledge that in any country where there is ground breaking legislation relating to the liberalisation of a sector, there are several processes of revision and consultations which must follow.
In the meantime, Sharma reiterated that GT&T is confident that Guyana will have liberalisation of the telecommunications sector very soon.

(By Leroy Smith )

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