Dear Editor,

I refer to a letter which appeared in your newspaper on Friday, February 19, by the regional vice president of corporate communications for LIME, Errol Miller, who questioned Digicel’s reaction to the February 11 judgement of the Supreme Court.

As Mr Miller pointed out himself, he is not a legal expert and so I was surprised to see his attempt to interpret the meaning of the judgement and Digicel’s response. Perhaps Mr Miller should have read the entire judgement or at least taken advice from his legal team before writing such a letter.

To be clear, we took the judgement to be fantastic news as the judge clearly indicated that the case is ‘impatient of final resolution’ and that ‘the matter should be tried as a matter of priority during the course of this term’. This is great news for Digicel and our customers as it means that the judicial system is working as it should and that the case will be given the priority it deserves.

In fact, on February 19, the same judge — at a hearing before all of the parties — ordered that the trial of the case be set for March 22, 2010, for a period of five days. In our view, this is indeed fantastic as it means that this long-standing dispute will be resolved in the very near future and it will not languish for a lengthy period of time in the Court system.

As such, we look forward to the resolution of this case so that we can complete our systems upgrade which has been on hold since last year.

Richard Fraser

Digicel Group legal and regulatory