Phone company, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) says it is awaiting a grant or release of spectrum to provide landline telephone service to certain sections of the country but the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) does not believe that this is necessary.
The PUC recently highlighted the company’s failure to provide reliable telephone service to sections of the country. The Commission had reminded the telecommunications company that the 1990 licensing agreement required that “GT&T establish facilities permitting telephone service along the entire coast from Crabwood Creek to Suddie and in interior locations within three years.”
More than two decades later, reliable landline service is not available on certain parts of the Essequibo Coast.