The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) is citing the completion of its new multi-million dollar GSM cellular service facility at Mahdia as “another concrete example of the company’s commitment to providing easy and reliable communication services between coastal and interior Guyana.”
On Wednesday January 30 Prime Minister Samuel Hinds will officiate at a ceremony to mark the commissioning of the new service the cost of which has been estimated at around US$250,000.
Speaking with Stabroek Business earlier this week GT&T Assistant Public Relations Officer Oscar Clarke said that the new service which has been in operation since December last year will serve Mahdia and its environs and will enable cellular subscribers to make calls anywhere in Guyana as well as outside of Guyana.
The influence of mining has transformed Mahdia into one of the more strategically important interior townships in Guyana and Clarke told Stabroek Business that the company was particularly proud of its new GSM facility there since apart from the service that it provides for both domestic and business interests in the community, the new GSM service would make a direct and meaningful contribution to the country’s economy as a whole.
Clarke said that the completion of the Mahdia cellular service at Mahdia reflected a triumph over several challenges which GT&T had faced in establishing the service. He explained that part of the process involved securing permission from the Civil Aviation Department. He also pointed out that setting up the Mahdia service was made more difficult by the nature of the terrain in the area.
According to Clarke the Mahdia service includes a 400-ft tower, one of the higher towers erected by GT&T and the company is “fully satisfied’ with the quality of the service being provided by the new facility.
Meanwhile, Clarke told Stabroek Business thqat GT&T’s ongoing cellular buildout will now focus on consolidating existing services and providing new ones on Guyana’s ‘eastern corridor.’Clarke said that the company expects to complete more cellular service installation work in Corentyne over the next month. The company is also expected to focus on contininmg its Essequibo buildout in Essequibo over the next few weeks.
