Cable and Wireless Monopoly Ends

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Saturday, 23 June 2012 02:30

By press release

Antigua St John's - Cable & Wireless’ 25 year monopoly license on international direct dial telephone calls has ended.

The monopoly regime, which applied to overseas calls originating from and terminating onto fixed lines and mobile phones, expired at midnight last night.
The Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda has approved international telecommunications services licenses to Digicel, LIME, ACT, and APUA.

A Memorandum of Understanding, which will govern on a contractual and mandatory basis, the relationships between the international telecommunications operators in the post LIME monopoly era, was today signed by Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, Dr. Edmond Mansoor as well as Senior Corporate Executives of Digicel, ACT, LIME and APUA.

During a short ceremony at the Headquarters of the Ministry of Telecommunications, Minister Mansoor thanked LIME for its role in the development of the telecommunications sector, and invited all telecommunications operators to continue their dialogue with the Government and to accelerate their investments in new technologies.

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Minister Mansoor highly commended the top two Telecommunications Executives in the Ministry, Clement Samuel and Daryl Jackson, for their prolific roles in the negotiating process with the companies.

“I am confident that citizens and residents will benefit from significantly more competitive rates on overseas calls to most regions of the world.

Moreover, the investments by the Telecommunications Operators in new, advanced wireless technologies will positively impact the entire society and will assist the Government to leap-frog its national ICT development and innovation agendas”, Minister Mansoor declared.

The end of the LIME monopoly marks the beginning of open competition in international telecommunication services.  Antigua and Barbuda already has open competition in the provision of Internet services.

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