{"id":38528,"date":"2019-06-16T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=38528"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:45:04","slug":"pm-to-digicel-and-flow-they-will-get-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-to-digicel-and-flow-they-will-get-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"PM To Digicel And Flow – “They Will Get Killed”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told telecommunication companies Digicel and Flow that they will not survive any spectrum war against APUAA and the government of Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>

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Browne told his weekly radio programme over the weekend that\u00a0the former administration “literally displaced APUA and gave Digicel all of the lucrative spectra.”<\/p>\n

He said that as a result, APUA has been unable to benefit from the millions of visitors who come to Antigua because they cannot offer roaming services.<\/p>

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“You know who the roaming revenue in Antigua and Barbuda goes to? Digicel and Flow, APUA gets none because they don’t have that type of low-frequency spectrum.”<\/p>

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The prime minister told radio listeners that the playing field is not equal and that must change.<\/p>\n

“You are telling me what we must sit down and allow that inequity to continue. So we say to them you have 21 gigabytes of space lets share it 7-7-7 and that is what they are resisting,” he said.<\/p>

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He said all three telecommunications companies can survive under that arrangement.<\/p>\n

“There are large telecommunication companies all over the world, with millions of customers sharing that kind of spectrum, and they (Digicel) with their little two by two customer base are trying to say to us that they cannot share because they want to keep out APUA,” Browne said.<\/p>

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He said the court has given the parties three months to resolve the issue on its own. Digicel claims it has secured an injunction from the court stopping the force acquisition of its spectrum.<\/p>

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The prime minister says Digicel and Flow cannot win any war with the government and advises them to cooperate.<\/p>\n

“And I hope they corporate because ultimately if they think they going to kill APUA, I can say to them not under my administration. If anything they will get killed they are not killing APUA, mark my word about that.”<\/p>\n

Browne is also refuting claims that his government is hostile to investors.<\/p>\n

“It’s not because we hustle to foreign investors we welcome foreign investment but this idea that you can just come and extract and put a company that is owned by the people of Antigua and Barbuda at a disadvantage that cannot be fair,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to Browne, an expert will be brought in to assess whether the spectrum can be shared. He said if it can be as local experts have already confirmed, Digicel and Flow will have no choice but to “share or leave.”<\/p>\n

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