Digicel ready to pounce in Guyana

DENIS O’BRIEN’S Digicel telecoms group in the Caribbean is keeping an eye on plans to further liberalise the market in Guyana in South America, where it already offers mobile services.

This would end Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s monopoly on voice and data traffic and change rules regarding interconnection and access, pricing, and spectrum management.

In theory, this should be the signal for Digicel to attack the broader telecoms market with all guns blazing. In the Caribbean, it has expanded into wireless broadband and other services.

Digicel described Guyana’s liberalisation process as at an “early stage”.

“That said, Digicel is looking forward to a telecommunications sector that will enable us to compete on an equal footing across the full range of services including international services, and that will incentivise further investment by Digicel in new technologies and services.”