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Is GT&T ripping us off with e-Magine broadband?

Aug 28, 2010 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
GT&T because of its monopoly continues to hold this nation to ransom with its extremely high broadband charges.
Yes we have seen a vast increase in speed but no we have not seen a cheaper service.
Why are customers still paying $9800, $20,000 and $30,300 when an even faster broadband service is available all over the Caribbean and the USA at a much cheaper rate?
Furthermore why do GT&T customers have to pay for modems when all over the world and across the Caribbean modems are provide free of charge to customers.
One would have thought that with the introduction of high speed broadband GT&T would have been able to provide the total package of Telephone, Internet and Cable at an affordable cost as it’s done in the USA. My take on this is that it’s not entirely GT&T’s fault, but partly the Government who has placed several restrictions pertaining to cable obviously out of fear that NCN their propaganda mouthpiece might be threatened.
The Government of Guyana continues to insult the intelligence of Guyanese by decrying the monopoly in the telephone sector but remaining mum when it comes to radio monopoly.
To continue to shamefully hide under the guise of broadcast legislation is a disgrace when in fact the current laws of slander and vulgarity adequately provide for policing of radio.
In Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica, Grenada, St Lucia and nearly every democratic country in the world independent radio stations exist in healthy competition.
Only in Russia, China, Cuba, and North Korea are there restrictions on independent radio.
Is Guyana a communist state, when it comes to radio, or is it that “goat bite we’.
Michael Anthony
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Where is the evidence?

Dear Editor,
The PPP keeps saying it has done more for Buxton than the PNC had ever done. Other than Donald Ramotar trading words back and forth he has not provided the evidence to prove that the PPP has done more.
Mr. Ramotar or the PPP must provide the hard facts to prove it has done more than the PNC. On one side show what the PNC did and on the other side show what the PPP has done.
This must not only include developmental projects; it must also include human capital development like, job creation and placements, better crime fighting techniques, youth empowerment, less poverty and less crimes under the PPP. Show the comparisons side by side.
Time for the evidence to start flowing.
Randolph Jones

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