More licks for GTT...

GTT continues to see its revenue decline.

Bypass and Economic Conditions my ass, blame DIGICEL. Gregory Dean etal must be have a ball over there at high street...that is, if those workaholics can stop long enough to savor a moment.

I wonder now if they're going to scale back on this dollar-a-minute, we hope not, we've gotten addicted to the cheapness...what?? Not like you haven't also!

GTT is being Naughty, Naughty....

Recently it seems as though at a certain time of the night, usually between 7-9, it becomes nearly impossible to place a call to Digicel if you’re using a GTT phone. Try it and more than likely you’ll be greeted with “Calls to this network cannot be completed, please contact the commercial office for further information” or something like that. Call into GTT customer’s service and you’ll be informed that it’s the other network that has the problem, and you will be further fed with all the bad qualities of Digicel. GTT’s CSR’s should respect the customer’s choice. If people want to have Digicel that is their choice, we live in a mostly free country and we are afforded the power of choice.

GTT is clearly sabotaging Digicel in this regard by blocking calls to their network, they need to stop this practice, it is stooping way below the belt and it’s definitely not playing on a level field for fair competition.

GTT Sucking Blows because of Digicel....

Well it was bound to happen. GTT has seen their revenue decreasing with the entry of Digicel to the local market two years ago.
It was reported that for the past fiscal year, GTT saw their revenue decline US$700,000. I imagine that Gregory Dean (digicel ceo) and his staff are having a ball with this news.

What did GTT expect though, after years of providing crappy service to the people of this country and charging excessively for those services. People flocked to Digicel like the local girls (and boys) chasing after rich white men and this is the result.

I guess this is probably the main reason why they are not going to relinquish their monopoly on international calling. Can you imagine how much worse those statements would look if they weren't receiving all that money from international calling.

Some pay might feel bad for GTT but I don't. For years they were making an abundance of money off the Guyanese people for a lousy service, money that found it's way to that white man in Boston. 100 % Guyanese??...Hell No!!!, it's actually 80% American!!!

A Lesson for GTT...

For our Blue Cell phone company, I'm going to offer a lesson in adjectives today, especially in their comparative and superlative forms.

Now the first word is. GOOD. Comparative Word would be BETTER (obviously because we are comparing between two entities) and the superlative form would be BEST.
So the progression goes: Good, Better, Best (we know this since primary school though, thanks to Junior English Revised)

Second word is, and this is easier than the previous one. STRONG. The comparative word would be STRONGER and the superlative form of the word would be STRONGEST.
This progression goes: Strong, Stronger, Strongest.

Now keeping that in mind, we come to the point of this confabulation of ours. There are two cell phone companies in this country being GTT and Digicel. Digicel's slogan is "The Bigger Better Network" Whilst GTT proclaim themselves to be "Best Network, Strongest Signal"...WRONG WRONG, WRONG GTT!!! Simple primary school english tells you that you are wrong. If you can't even get your slogan right, (which is probably one of the easiest tasks to get done) how the heck are you intending to get your entire network right? The proper phrasing should be "Better Network, Stronger Signal", GTT Ya hear, you guys are setting a bad example, fix it!

Most grade 5 students know that when you are comparing two things, the comparative form of the word is used (Ok, granted kids might not know the rationale for using them, BUT they know that when there are only TWO, the second form is used) so if school kids can get this right, why the heck can't the folks at GTT get that right? are they that starved for intelligence and simple English skills over there that they cannot get a few words grammatically correct? GTT should be ashamed of themselves.

Some people are not fans of Digicel but one cannot deny that they really do pay meticulous attention to even the small things. GTT, still leaves much to be desired.

Come on Digicel, rid us of those internet charges

No people, I'm not picking on Digicel, it's just that when you use their service you are entitled to ask, even demand certain things from them, so I'm just doing that. I'm fulfilling my role as a customer.

So here I go again. Like many persons (myself included) when Digicel entered the Guyana market we rushed to switched to them because they were fresh and new, with such great promise, but more importantly we had gotten tired of lame ass, exploiting Cellink. But in the time that Digicel has been here, Cellink has made some great improvements to their networks and I must say that they have done a good job. They're giving the red company a good fight for their money and in the end that is just great for the customers. Competition is great. Unlike some people, I do not want GTT to just fold over and let Digicel have the entire mobile market because then we're right back where we were before...so now for customers it just comes down to preference while some people don't make that choice and eventually carry around two phones (myself included).

I have a tendency to ramble on when I get started but here is the gist of this entry, I would like to know if Digicel ever does intend to stop charging us to use the internet on our phone? It's about damn freaking time don't you think? The other network has free internet browsing so why is Digicel charging their customers to use this service? And I must add, it's not a very small charge either. With that in mind, can they really and honestly call themselves "THE BIGGER BETTER NETWORK" I severely doubt that. I have to wonder if they haven't realized that one of the reasons that a lot of Cellink subscribers have retained their numbers is simply because they would like to browse the net and not have to pay for it? Come on Digi, if I wanted to use the net and pay for it, I would find myself at an internet cafe where it costs much less to browse. You guys should really eradicate this particular charge and please don't even get me started on the fact that I have NEVER EVER won anything on a Digicel promotion. That's for another day though...

A little question for the people at Digicel

Last week on the latest edition of the Shonette Moore show, Digicel's Mr. Donovan White again made known the fact that his company is ready for SMS interconnect. While stating that this service is a basic one for telephone companies around the world and not a service that incurs much cost to provide or use.

Now, it has been proven that TEXT messages cost little or nothing to transmit between users, why then does Digicel charge somewhere around $10 per message?

After years of swindling the Guyanese people, GTT has righted themselves and are now charging $1 per message (I Love them for that), in part because they know that sending these messages cost them little or nothing to send, regardless of how many are sent.

Now, the people at Digicel might think that the Guyanese people are ungrateful because quite frankly, without them we'd still be stuck with the previously lame Cellink and they're extravagant costs for calls and messages, but be that as it may, Cellink has corrected themselves so why then is Digicel still charging so much? and can they morally criticize GTT for charging so much on overseas calls?

No Affiliation

In light of a recent comment made about one of our posts (read the post and the comment)I’d like to point out that in no way are we affiliated with either GT&T or Digicel. All thoughts, comments, criticisms and such like are personal and do not bear any favoritism towards Digicel nor their competitor GT&T.

GT&T, Getting worse all the time

So I just saw the most recent Cellink advertisement which seeks to respond to Digicel's Free Night Talk and I must say that without a shadow of doubt, it is ridiculously horrible, one of the worst ad's to have come from GTT in a while.

What's the matter with GTT? Are they paying too much money to HJTV that there is little left to make some proper advertisements? I know that GuyEnterprise wasn't very good with your ads (at least the video ones) but come on, you've gotten much worse since leaving them.

This latest offering appears to have come from some bottom house business, it looks beyond cheap. Who the heck are doing your ads now? Seems like you're giving Astro Arts some work to do because they're the only agency in this country I think that would make such bad ads. This wasn't just plain ole terrible, this was fancy terrible, this was terrible with whip cream on top and it's even worse when you realise that the Digicel ad they are responding to is one of the best, well produced ads, currently airing on television. Did their advertising people not see the digicel ad? Could they not have given the public something much much better than this big load of crap?

The people who created and approved that advertisement is living proof that many men..and woment, exist without brains or talent.

GT&T -- They're at it again

As a follow-up to their failed promotion yesterday, GT&T was at it again today -- this time, going to even lower standards.  Instead of having RAZRs and L7s, they belched up some of the worst phones ever.  Yes folks, you guessed it -- the Morotola C113 and 119 along with the entire family of other 'C' phones and sold them at $5000 a pop.  I have not gotten any feedback as to how the sales went, but I was thinking -- who the fuck would want these pieces of shit for $5k?  It's worse than buying the refuse they were selling yesterday.   

Let's think back people ... remember that time when they were literally giving them away along with $1000 of talk time?  If they could have afforded to do that then, imagine how much they were actually paying for each phone in bulk.  If you bought one of these days then I am sorry for you.  You have just been caught up in a snare.  One that only our beloved GT&T could have thought up.  

GT&T – The Best Reason to Switch to Digicel

Today, GT&T had a bit of a cell phone promo – Buy a Motorola V3i (RAZR) or a Motorola L7 for $10K and get free tickets to the upcoming T-Pain Show along with the After Party and Glow Party.  Upon seeing this I thought wow, great phone at a great price plus a great incentive.  One thing though … there had to be a catch.  Ahh yes, GT&T and their beguiling ways.  Here’s the catch – the fucking phones were refurbished pieces of shit that the blasted people at our beloved telephone company threw at the Guyanese public as if we were all has-beens.  That's not all.  Within 15 minutes of starting the promo it finished.  The 3 or 4 phones that they had on sale were all gone.  C'mon, if you're going to do something like this, then do it right.  Get enough phones so at least 50 people can get one and not just 3 or 4.  Because of the soldouts the friggers began selling Bird phones.  What a shame and disgrace.  Your slogan is Getting better all the time, but really, is that true? Really?  Stop lying to yourselves and the Guyanese people.  

I wonder what they'll do next?

T-Pain show is almost here for all those who slightly care

Ladies and gentlemen and none of you flamboyant gentlemen I guess by now you all (if you’re usually informed) know that the circus is headed to town. No people, not the Suarez circus that thrilled us before, I’m talking about the circus with the self-proclaimed ringleader being T-Pain…and what a pain he is (personal opinion).

I’ll say it right now, Mr. Short, dark and obnoxious T-Pain sucks!! He cannot sing or perform…at least not by himself. I’m sure that by now you’d notice that on most of his successful recordings he has another ‘guest’ artiste performing with him. Care to guess why the one’s when he sings alone aren’t very popular?

Anyway what’s done is done; the circus is headed to town. What’s interesting to note however is that it appears as though the local clowns aren’t very interested in this circus because it seems as if the tickets aren’t selling as expected, and who can blame them for that? Personally my money can be better spent on cricket tickets.

How else can you explain all these recent promotions giving away free tickets? Cellink was giving away tickets with cheap phone purchases today and on Friday even cheaper phone purchases will get you tickets. You can argue that they’re giving back to the public but I’ll maintain that if the tickets were selling then they would not be giving them away.

And on a side note, how the hell is Ms. Marshall part of the headlining group? Nonsense I tell you, she can probably pass as the opening act as best (maybe not even that) but headliner…Hell NO!! all the more reason to stay away.

As always, these are my personal Opinion, if you don’t like it…ya know what? Bitch please…

Digicel Responds to $1 per minute

Well it was only a matter of time before Digicel responded to Cellink's latest promotion. A promotion that I must admit was destined to be very successful. How can you compete with $1 per minute...well us Guyanese would know that there is only one thing better than $1...FREE.

So here it is, digicel latest offering will be along these lines: Make two, three minute calls and get to talk all night FREE. Isn't that cool or what for all those who just love to talk on and on and on (myself included).

Some of you might have notice those strip ads running in the papers "All Night Long" or "Night Owls Wanted"...well now you have an explanation.

Competition is great...Keep it going guys, it's getting better and cheaper for all of us.

Cellink is again engaging in some silliness

Ok Cellink, we get it that the competition has the hot red for their color but come on, don’t you think that this is a little foolish. First there was the blue Santa Claus, then came the blue Mother Laxmi and now for a sponsored Cellink event, we have the blue rose for Valentine’s. Oh come on, don’t you know that some things are bigger than competition? And a blue rose for Valentine’s is just plain silly. Where’s the love people?

Sorry to say Digicel but GT&T is the better value...(at the moment)

Sorry digi, I love you, I’ve loved you for about two years now but sadly I gotta say, Blue has got ya beat right now. I hope that the global economic crisis hasn’t hit you as well so you’re now forced to cut blah blah time in half. Blue in the meanwhile just costs $1 per minute after 10 accumulated minutes of talk during the day. Right now, in these hard times, a person has to go where they’re pockets can take them and that just happens to be blue who does have the better value at the moment.
I’m sure red will bounce back though and I’m waiting patiently...