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…vandalism disrupts company’s programme by eight monthsThe Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T) has revealed that 11,000 Digital Subscriber’s Line (DSL) customers were added since December 2010.There are now over 18,Wholesale Jerseys,000 DSL customers, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Yog Mahadeo, has revealed, noting that the company is now projecting 30,000 subscribers by December.GT&T’s CEO, Yog MahadeoMahadei made these revelations at the Berbice Regional Health Authority Annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday, where a special offer on BlackBerry Smartphones was unveiled for nurses, doctors and other health workers in the region. The company’s booth was set up at the ceremony and phones were being sold at reduced prices to the health workers. This would continue for the next three months.According to the CEO, the company has added 13 new cell sites across the country. “And so, we’re adding to the service—we know in some areas, the service may be a little poor,Cheap Sports Jerseys, so we’re adding to that quality of service that you expect from us.”He stated that it was his hope and vision in July 2010 when the new fiber- optic cable was launched “that we would have spread (Emagine) Broadband across this country and within two years, there would be 40,000 persons using broadband. Unfortunately,Cheap NFL Jerseys 2016, we could not have shared that vision, with the powers that be, and so as we stand today, we could not have delivered that vision, because of many reasons outside of GT&T’s control.”Berbicians were expecting the new and faster Emagine service since sometime last year but were disappointed at the constant delays. The service moved to West Demerara in October last year. The CEO reassured Berbicians that Emagine would be coming soon. “We’re coming your way, and we would want to ask you to partner with us as we have partnered with you.”“One thing has hampered us and I know you have applied for phones and DSL and they take a long time to come, or is at fault and it takes a long time to repair, but guess what, every month of the past year— twice per month— our infrastructure has been hit by vandals. People just go and cut our cables for no reason and disrupt the service and so our entire technical fleet has been caught up in a vicious cycle of repairing these acts of vandalism all across the country and so that has pushed back our installation, repairs and maintenance programme by eight months.”He urged customers to play their part and report the vandals to the authorities. Berbice, he said,jerseys nfl wholesale, has a distinct record “of being the best across the country”.He said GT&T will continue to play a supporting role in the region. The company,Nike Air Vapor Max Flyknit, he said, will be refurbishing the waiting shed within the New Amsterdam Hospital compound. The company had built the shed a few years ago. “We’d also look to walk across the Berbice region…and will be making a special offer to our BlackBerry service to all the medical workers in this region and will be coming around over the next three months to every health facility and work with you to join our service,nfl jerseys cheap,” he said. |
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