Another local ICT service provider has weighed in the ongoing industry-wide controversy over the alleged leaden-footedness of the government in the allocation of bandwidth to private sector ICT service providers and what is widely believed to be the negative impact on the development of the sector.
“Of course the forward movement of the ICT sector has been negatively affected by the bandwidth issue but part of the problem may well have to do with the failure of the businesses comprising the sector to act collectively to address an issue that affects us as a whole,” Digital Technology Chief Executive Officer Terrence Sukhu told Stabroek Business.
On Saturday, Digital Technology unveiled its
new service outlet at 74 Brickdam, a move which
Sukhu said, marked the further shift of the company away from being a product-driven entity to becoming a solutions-driven one.
The 31-year-old head of the 11-year-old company said he believed there was much merit in “the creation of a body comprising key service providers in the ICT sector… to discuss important common problems facing the sector and to be part of the solutions to those challenges and to engage government on solutions.” Asked whether the competitive nature of the industry might not preclude the setting up of such a body, Sukhu said that in the final analysis the issues required collective attention and were of “common interest to the sector as a whole”.
Digital Technology’s expansion into Georgetown
followed the company’s creation in Grove in 2003 and its 2011 relocation to Diamond where the company
continues to be headquartered.
Sukhu said the opening of the Brickdam complex had not only put him closer to a major section of the market but also marked the company’s arrival at an important stage of its development. He said that while Digital Technology was still at a developmental stage it had become possible to see the growth of the company from its infancy to its current state.
Sukhu told Stabroek Business, meanwhile that the growth of Digital Technology, over the years, had been attended by the creation of alliances with a number of reputable international companies including LG, Dell and Hewlett Packard. He said Digital Technology’s relationships with those companies had created important training opportunities that resulted in the growth of a cadre of IT professionals within the company.
Sukhu said international IT service providers continued to pay particular interest in the sector in Guyana. “The very fact that Guyana’s IT sector is one of the least developed in this part of the world makes in interesting to some of the major entities,” he added.
