The Managing Director of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL), Embert Charles, says there continues to be talks between Authority and the players involved in the merger between FLOW and Cable and Wireless.
ECTEL had talks with the company on arriving at mechanisms to ease the burden on consumers.
Mr Charles says the status now is that negotiations having broken down a few months ago, is for ECTEL to go to the second plan which is to declare the joint operations dominant. According to the ECTEL Managing Director, there must be clear procedures for that.
ECTEL will have to do a study, and legal work to ensure the evidence – if the companies are operating as one, from there it will apply the rule of regulating the prices, regulating these services. Charles said the necessary expertise is being gathered to assist ECTEL in that regard.
In the meantime, some of the licences are up for renewal and the regulator is considering the applications now before it. The Managing Director promised that ECTEL will be reporting on the progress of that.
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