GT&T IS PLAYING A BULLY, GUYANESE NEED A BETTER SERVICE IN THE PHONE SECTOR. TOO LONG THE NATION IS BEEN SUBJECTED TO OPPRESSION BY A FEW PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY MUST ALWAYS BE IN CONTROL.

that was a really nice offer frm u guys DIGICEL, but as usual der is always some1 who always want to [censored] UP thing and pressure ppl more bad

Shame on GT&T! you enjoyed Monopoly for over 20 years, sucking the Guyanese people like a Leech! Now dont go hiding behind the skirts of the court! Stand and fight like a Giant you claim to be! Give the Guyanese a chance to enjoy low rates! Match it if u can! If Digicel can bring the rates down and make a profit, so can you! Why do u want Super PROFITS?

Another sad day in Guyana but business as usual!

A lot of people would not understand the game plan here.
Just Google Digicel in the news, and you would be shocked at some of the things that comes up on this Irish company.

I wonder why they are not competing in Ireland?

Anyway, I strongly supports competition and a severe reduction in international rates, but I think Digicel deliberately placed those ads so that the ordinary man would have a different mindset and by extension induce political pressure on parliament to pass the telecommunicati ons act.

What they do not know is that our parliamentarian s have all the facts on Digicel, the melee in Jamaica and elsewhere.

APNU and AFC has the majority to pass it, but people ask yourself why they are no longer doing so.

The PPP had brought it to parliament when they had the majority and abruptly decided that they are not passing it. People need to ask themselves why.

But as I had said, I know of three parliamentarian s from two political parties who received certain credible information, and wants answers from Digicel.

If anyone can remember, this company offered us low rates when they first came, then increased it by 70% more than GT&T once they gain the larger market share of subscribers. ($20 per minute on GT&T compared now to $32 per minute on Digicel).

They did the same thing in Jamaica, cause a competitor (Claro) to close down then drastically increase their international rates once they run Claro out of business.

In Guyana's case, 30% of Digicel employees are foreigners (Guyanese check that properly and find out what are the nationalities of most of the Digicel retail store owners), plus 75% of the customer support jobs is outsourced to staff in Trinidad and Jamaica. You notice this whenever you call the 100 number for support, in addition to a news item in a Trinidad daily paper.

Digicel also has a nasty habit when it comes to paying taxes. The Jamaica Government had to get police and the army to raid their offices and start a criminal probe for which Digicel is fighting in court to block.

Two weeks ago when the other phone company (LIME) lowered their rates and the Jamaican Government approved a standard low rate for interconnecting , Digicel took the Jamaicans to court arguing that the rate should not be brought down lower. (How ironic to be pretending here in Guyana now)

If you read the Wikipedia online encyclopedia on this company, you will notice that these guys have some shady ways of doing business and faced numerous battles with many Governments regarding their guerrilla-style business practices, and reluctance to pay the right taxes.

The bottom line here is that we wants to know Digicel's true intentions once they have the rights to make direct international calls.

We wants to know how many foreigners you have brought in here to work, what you are paying them from Guyanese revenue and what the Guyanese staffs are actually earning.

GT&T says they pay more taxes, how much do you pay?

Why are you refusing to publicly publish your financial statements?

I am not judging anyone here, but I just want Digicel to know that Guyanese are not that stupid.

Just tell us how long the the international rates would be cheap for once you runs GT&T out of business.

There are other questions, but lets start there first.

shame on gtt. this means that gtt could charge us at a much lower price. but they have us over a barrel, raping us. shame! shame!

That's GT&T - run to Mama!! The Guyanese customers have a choice. 5hey should switch completely to Digicel and show who is boss. You ripped them off for years - now you are crying like a "Sissy". ;(

Guyana needs the competition!Rem ember the days when cell call used to be $43 a minute. It's because of DIGICEL it has been reduced. GT&T laccks the vision on its own. The Blackberry service that GT&T is trying to take over was introduced by DIGICEL. Now that DIGICEL is once again innovative with its new international rates, GT&T is screaming. This will affect the land line service monopoly that GT&T has.

GT&T needs to come better than this and do something for the people of Guyana!!! One thing that needs to be examined is charges for internet service? Again GT&T has control over this? These charges are not affordable to average Guyanese. Its just an essential utility that is why people are pursuing it.

I say support DIGICEL in the name of competition.