Telikom must get ready to compete

THE Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) has functioned well as a regulatory body to protect consumer interests and at the same time, implement government policies.
It is inappropriate for Telikom PNG to use public money to pursue a court case against the ICCC, another Government institution.
Deficiencies in Telikom have, over the years, affected the country’s economic growth and taken up millions of kina which could otherwise have gone into development projects
The ICCC is implementing a major national Government policy which aims to remove impediments to business and investments, and to facilitate competition in the industry.
Improving telecommunication services at more reasonable rates can generate enormous economic benefits with logarithmic effects.
Telikom should prepare itself for competition.
It should not put such shallow pretexts in public papers to protect prevalent systemic deficiencies.

Kevin Mack Kuringi
Port Moresby

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