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Jun 17, 2010 News
The government is yet to come clean on how much money will be spent on running a fibre optic cable from Brazil to Guyana, the government’s chief spokesman Dr Roger Luncheon stated the cost is yet to be decided.
This is despite the fact that the administration has already bought the cable and hired a contractor to run the cable.
“The additional information about moving from Lethem to Linden, Linden to Providence, Providence to Georgetown, linking in from Moleson Creek to Charity – (those) finite costs have not been arrived at as yet,” Dr Luncheon said at a press conference at the Presidential Complex in Georgetown, yesterday.
The government has said that the intention of the project is to set up a fibre optic networking system from Georgetown to Lethem, construct a central data centre in Georgetown and set up a wireless and terrestrial network from Moleson Creek to Anna Regina.
“I think we are much stronger with what our intentions are and what steps have been taken to further those intentions…costings (sic) I am less familiar,” Luncheon stated.
Budgetary allocations to the project pegs it at some $8.8B, with funding coming from China and India, the government had stated.
Leader of the Opposition, Robert Corbin, has been questioning the rationale behind such a project which he said was in the context of the fact that the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT7T) has already undertaken such an initiative.
Corbin said that the fact the government is still forging ahead with the project indicates an intention to be able to compete with the private sector as well as manipulate the sector.
Opposition Parliamentarian Aubrey Norton, has also been critical of the project, saying the money could be best spent elsewhere, since GT&T has expended US$30M to land a submarine fibre optic cable in Guyana which would meet necessary needs.
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