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Jan 19, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is pellucid that GT&T seems to be reluctant in expanding the landline telephone service in this country.  It seems to have been an eternity since residents of the De Hoop Branch Road, West Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, have been pleading with this telephone company for the expansion of the landline service (that is already there at the front part of the village) to further into the community. Several petitions were done over the years, the last of which was sent a few months ago, through the Regional Chairman’s office, Region 5, to GT&T. However, they have all been ignored, or so it seems.
I am quite aware that it may not be lucrative business for the telephone company when it comes to the money raked in from landline calls, but management needs to look on the bright side. De Hoop is a very populated community of mainly middle class families all of whom can afford to pay the $9,980 per month for the internet service provided via the landlines.
Even though we are in the 21st century, when it comes to information technology, while other countries around the world are moving ahead by leaps and bounds, we are stuck in a rut somewhere in the 19th century, thanks to a lack of innovation by a telephone company that has the monopoly over the landline service in Guyana. The provision of this basic service should definitely be opened to competition from other service providers.
I believe that it is criminal to deny hundreds of primary and secondary schools students the opportunity to use this basic facility, the internet, to assist them with their daily research in their quest to access a proper education and be somebody in society. Hence, I would like to use this forum to once again appeal to GT&T, on behalf of residents of the community, for immediate action in the installation of the landline phone service and by extension, internet service, in the De Hoop Branch Road area.
Mr. Janaknauth Panchu.
Resident.

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