Cable & Wireless has dismissed as mischievous, claims made by some new entrants to the communications industry that it was engaged in anti-competitive practices.

The telecoms firm has also demanded an apology from the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) whose deputy director-general, Courtney Jackson, levelled a similar charge against the company in a story that appeared in last week's edition of the Business Observer.

"C&WJ has written to the Office of Utilities Regulation demanding a public apology from its deputy director-general, Mr C Courtney Jackson whose statements as they appear in the article are inaccurate and exhibit scant disregard for procedural fairness," said Errol Miller, head of corporate communications at C&WJ in a letter to the Business Observer.

Miller also charged some of the new entrants to the industry with interpreting full liberalisation of the telecommunications industry as a licence to "flout the governing law and regulations".

In the story, some of the entrants had complained of their services being disconnected by C&WJ, but Miller pointed out that in the cases where legal challenges had been mounted against the disconnection, C&WJ had prevailed.
Please see Page 6B for Miller's complete response.

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