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Summary of Response
CANTO, the leading trade association for telecoms providers in the Caribbean
region responds to the ITU. CANTO takes the view that regulations are to be
applied to all the players in the same markets or not at all. Caribbean operators
bear the costs of regulation while OTTs in the same Caribbean markets are
not similarly regulated resulting in the services of telecom operators being
uncompetitive. Moreover OTTs must pay their fair share of cost for using local
networks in the Caribbean. They are not doing so but rather are being
subsidized by Caribbean telecoms operators, Caribbean governments and
Caribbean consumers.
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