GTT recently connected over 20 schools and residents with landline services at Bartica.
The move follows a meeting in October between GTT’s Executive team and the mayor and residents of the Region Seven township.
In a statement issued on November 1, GTT said Potaro Primary, Bartica Secondary, St. John the Baptist Primary, 1st Avenue Nursery and Byderabo Nursery are among the schools connected.
It noted that during the meeting GTT’s Chief Executive Officer Damian Blackburn had highlighted that the company had already started installation of new towers within the region to provide customers with improved mobile services by April 2022.
“Internet and access to the internet is a fundamental human right, and I will fight for that right for residents within this region,” he said.
The CEO stated that while the tower within Bartica has been built to support improved mobile service, customers will only benefit from the upgrade with the installation of a second tower at Waratilla.
“With our new goal to position GTT as a 21st century customer centric organisation, we have been listening to customers’ concerns and acting on them where we can. One of our promises is to reliably connect customers and while Fibre is not an option in the short term, we will definitely provide residents with our new high-speed mobile data services by next April,” he stated.
The statement said more landline installations are expected to continue to reduce a backlog of applications for residents within the region.