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Caribbean Internet Providers Told To Lower Costs,
by Amanda Banks, Tax-News.com, London
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
The leading telecommunications providers in the Caribbean Region have been
told that the social and economic advantages that internet communications technology
are offering to the territories can be maximized only if the costs of high speed
internet and broadband technology are dramatically reduced.
Speaking in Bridgetown, Barbados on Monday, Edmond Mansoor, Antigua &
Barbuda's Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility
for Information, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, said that bringing broadband
technology to the masses at an affordable price is a major challenge facing
the Caribbean Community.
Mansoor was at the time speaking as part of a panel of Ministers at the
23rd Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition of the Caribbean Association of
National Telecommunication Organisations (CANTO).
"Providing broadband technology must be at the very centre of ICT development
today. It cannot be simply about the connectivity of the elite where some people
walk around the town with their GSM phones and Blackberries", Mansoor told
the conference.
According to Mansoor, the information that is available to Telecommunications
Ministers of the region shows that the people at the lower end of the socio-economic
scale are not just paying more for their broadband technology but they are in
fact receiving less bandwidth. This, he indicated, translates into the poor
paying more for technology.
Minister Mansoor also told the gathering that there was a direct relationship
between the rate of broadband connectivity and the rate of growth of the GDP
of any country. He also indicated that there was a direct relationship between
access to broadband technology and a reduction in poverty.
History was made recently in Antigua and Barbuda with the landing of a new
submarine fibre optic cable. The fibre optic cable is providing the Government
and people of Antigua and Barbuda with access to inexpensive broadband technology,
Manossor said.
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda says that it has committed itself to
promoting affordable access to ICTs, so as to ensure that the benefits of ICTs
are more evenly distributed within the twin-island nation.
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