Category: Telecoms

The long hard road to Universality

Over the past several months, regulators in the ECTEL Member States have been publishing job vacancies and tender advertisements in relation to Universal Service/Universal Access in telecoms. They look poised to start implementing projects this year. Having been involved in the process in the initial stages when I worked in Saint Lucia, I recalled that USF Contribution Orders had been executed as early as 2006. I thus wondered “why has it taken so long to implement Universal Service/Universal Access?” but soon had to admit that the situation in the Eastern Caribbean is not unique…

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