Owners of Telecoms companies in Guyana

A blogger on another blog site, is contending that a Guyanese parliamentarian is the owner of a telecommunication company, and that at the end of GT&T's monopoly there may be zero telecoms regulation for Guyana.

The blog post titled "Shiela Holder - Telecoms Owner" quotes a letter from Ms. Holder in which she said that "in a market economy, only monopolies need to be regulated". The blogger is contending that GT&T may be giving up its monopoly for that reason and that Digicel may have taken GT&T to court to fight for the monopoly to end since that would bring freedom from regulation.

According to Ms. Holder, I-net is owned and managed by her husband, She said, "my husband is an investor and the CEO" for i-net.

One would recall that in February 2009, Ms. Holder called for GT&T's monopoly to be ended.(see Stabroek news article).

The blogger opines that the future of telecoms in Guyana may be non-regulated, given Holder's assertions and representations for her company in parliament.