By JULIA DAIA BORE
NEW mobile phone company Digicel (PNG) Limited yesterday made an application to the National Court to stop the Papua New Guinea Radiocommunications and Telecommunication Technical Authority, Pangtel, from taking any action to prevent it from operating its mobile services.
This fresh action follows an earlier court order it obtained to prevent Pangtel pulling down its towers and mobile stations.
Pangtel is empowered under the Radiocommunications Act to take such actions against persons it deems to be operating illegal radiocommunications facilities.
Digicel’s lawyers said yesterday that it was on this basis that its client sought to ensure such acts do not happen.
Digicel also sought the court to ensure that if they were successful with the application, the costs for its proceedings and its two overseas defence counsel be met by Pangtel.
Presiding judge Justice Bernard Sakora yesterday reserved his decision until Monday.
Digicel wants the court to restrain Pangtel or its agents from entering any of its premises or that of its agents, and from seizing, removing or interfering with any apparatus.
Since Digicel resumed operations on July 20, 2007, a number of different court proceedings had been launched by Telikom PNG to have Digicel’s licences, one granted by ICCC in August 2006 and another for it to operate as a public mobile company issued by ICCC on March 27, 2007, be declared “null and void”.




 

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