GTT officially launches Blaze internet service
bandwidth, which is the slowest in the country. Stabroek News also learnt from customer service representatives that the company is targeting communities which cannot access DSL or telephone service.
The installation of the new internet service would be rolled out in phases throughout the country but no time frame was given for this.
The company currently offers three different speeds of internet on the Blaze network. The Ignite/Fibre 5 package offers up to five megabytes per second for $8,999; the Flaming package/Fibre 20 offers 20 megabytes per second for $10,999 and the Inferno/Fibre 50 package offers up to 50 megabytes per second at a cost of $14,999 monthly.
At present over 1,000 customers are accessing the service, Nedd said, and “We are receiving testimonials from real customers, not paid, that really say that they enjoy the quality of internet.”
He added, “This is not something we are launching and now doing a trial. This is something that we at GTT have installed and tested.” As prospective customers signed up for the service they received a complimentary bottle of pepper sauce representing the package they signed up for.
GTT Public Relations Officer Nadia DeAbreu explained to this publication that as they were working out their marketing strategies they came up with the idea of pepper sauce to signify the speed of the new service. “Our new internet service is blazing so we decided to go with something that would represent the quality of our internet and something that is Guyanese…”
De Abreu explained they worked with local agro-processing company Umami and created three different pepper sauces: red is ignite and lowest speed of internet on the fibre cable, yellow is flaming and a faster internet and blue is symbolic of the inferno and fastest service.
At the expo, GTT partnered with companies such as RadioShack, Starr Computer, Innosysgy, Payments.gy, Moviestar, Richards-Wilcox Garage Doors and CAME Automatic Gates, Ditec Automatic Gates and Doors, to showcase their service with the enhanced internet service.