AS a result of an advertisement by U-Mobile (Cellular) Inc. to  implement  overseas rates cuts,  the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T) has taken an ex-parte action against that company, resulting  in Justice Dawn Gregory granting  an injunction restraining  the company from carrying out the planned operations. The advertising  programme  followed last Friday’s High Court  ruling by Justice Rishi  Persaud  who upheld the contention that GT&T’s  Telecommunications service monopoly is unlawful and in breach of the Civil Law of Guyana.
Apart  from restraining  the U-Mobile (Cellular) directors, managers , employees, servants, and/or agents from  advertising, commencing running or operating  an international call  service other than through  interconnection with the plaintiff or without having  first obtained a licence to so do,  as required by the  provisions  of the Telecommunications Act 1990, it is further  ordered that the plaintiff be at  liberty to serve on the defendant a summons  returnable for the 3rd   day of August, 2012, in chambers.
The judge also ordered  that there must be a sealed and certified  copy  of this writ of summons filed herein and a sealed and certified copy  of this  Order  and a sealed copy of the Ex parte application by way  of affidavit sworn to herein on the 26th   day July,2012.
The matter  has  been adjourned to the 3rd  day  of August, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. in chambers.