Bridgetown.
The Fair Trading Commission will have to decide if telecommunications gaint LIME's monopoly on landline service in Barbados will be broken.
This is as a result of the failture of LIME and the Irish owned mobile service provider Digicel failure to reach an agreement on changing the terms of the interconnection deal between the two company to allow Digicel to add landline services to its mobile network.
On August 22, 2012, Digicel was awarded a full domestic services licence by the Government to allow them to provide the full range of landline services in Barbados.
According to Barry O'Brien the chief executive officer of Digicel, the company promptly held discussions with LIME on the matter but after a lengthy period of inconclusive negotiations on the matter they been unable to secure an agreement with LIME in relation to how the interconnection rates regime would appy to Digicel's new landline service.
O'Brien told Trakker News, it was reasonable to expect that Digcel would be able to enjoy the same termination rates regime for their own landline service as LIME but he was not surprised a fair rate regime had not been reached.
"LIME wants one rule for itself and a different rule for everyone else. The people of Barbados deserve a truly competitive market for landline services. Digicel will engage the FTC to ensure that this public interest objective is met", he added.
