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Guyana Communications
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Guyana International Telecommunications Corporation (Guyintel)
satellite ground station at Georgetown
Courtesy Embassy of Guyana, Washington
Guyana's communications system was on par with its
underdeveloped transportation system. There were 27,000 telephones
in use in 1983, or 3.3 per 100 people. Two Japanese companies
installed a telephone system in 1987, but the telephone network
still required an estimated US$150 million in repairs and
improvements as of 1988. International direct dialing was
available, but calling Guyana from the United States required
repeated efforts.
Tele Network, a company from the United States Virgin Islands,
agreed to take a majority interest in a telecommunications joint
venture starting in late 1990, according to the United States
Embassy. The state-owned Guyana Telecommunications Corporation also
reached an agreement with a Canadian company, Northern
Telecommunications, to rehabilitate the telephone infrastructure,
according to Guyana Business.
Georgetown had two privately owned television stations that
relayed United States programming picked up from satellites and one
government-operated station in 1991. The government also operated
two amplitude modulation (AM) radio stations in the capital and two
frequency modulation (FM) stations, one in Georgetown and one in
Lethem.
Data as of January 1992
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