Having studied the Draft legislation and regulations, we are left with numerous concerns – concerns which, if not clarified, will create investor and consumer uncertainty: for example, would it not amount to a rewarding of illegality if a currently illegal operator is automatically granted a licence with the introduction of the new legislation?
Government should take seriously the question raised by the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) earlier this week on whether the granting of an operating licence to a “currently illegal operator” would not amount to “a rewarding of illegality,” a source close to the telecommunications sector told Stabroek Business earlier this week.
The source, which made this newspaper aware of the completion of the new draft legislation for the liberalization of the telecommunications sector some