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Trinidad phone company says it's being sabotaged by competition
Monday, April 17, 2006
by Stephen Cummings
Caribbean Net News Trinidad Correspondent
Email: stephen@caribbeannetnews.com
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) is claiming that its operations are being sabotaged due to current open market competition.
The company says it continues to experience regular attacks on several of its installations especially during the past week where these attacks appear to have been deliberate attempt aimed at damaging the company's ability to provide phone services.
TSTT's Chief Operating Officer, Bernard Mitchell, during a media conference on Thursday at the company's Port of Spain office said they had recorded for the first time ever over a seven-day period damage to two of its cellular sites, one in Arima east Trinidad and the other in the Laventille area not far from the nation's capital, Port of Spain.
The company added that this may have been as a result of emerging competition in the telecommunications market place. It says some 13 acts of vandalism against TSTT had been recorded within the past week.
TSTT's monopoly on mobile phones ended when last week another mobile operator, Digicel, opened its doors for the first time in Trinidad and Tobago offering better service and better quality mobile phones to customers.
Since then there has been a fierce trade war backed up by full-blown marketing and promotions by both companies trying to woo customers to their respective networks.
At least one major outstanding issue still remains. That of final interconnection rates, which are to be decided upon by the authorities. Customers calling across the two networks are not expected to know for a few months exactly what they will have to pay for interconnection mobile phone usage.
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