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Telecoms say no to service quality regulation |
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Written by jamaicaobserver.com
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
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At least three telecommunications firms operating in Jamaica are seething over the Office of Utilities Regulation's (OUR's) move to regulate quality of service for the sector, and responded to the regulator's consultative documents on the matter with a resounding 'no'.
Columbus Communications, which operates across the island as Flow, asked the OUR to immediately dismiss the proceeding on the grounds that it was unnecessary, costly, and administratively burdensome "without resulting tangible benefits", while mobile provider Digicel went as far as to say that the regulator must have made a mistake in opening the process to bring quality of service standards to the telecommunications sector. "Digicel assumes that the OUR has mistakenly reached the conclusion that regulation is necessary as it has failed to take proper account of the significant commercial incentives which already exist to secure the provision of a high quality of service," said the Irish-owned telecom in its response to OUR proposals.... FULL ARTICLE |
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