Digicel abandons pricing plan in BVI

Digicel has ceased offering one of  its pricing plans in the British Virgin Islands weeks after the territory’s telecommunications regulator fined the company and its rival LIME, accusing them of  anti-competitive behaviour.

After the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission announced its finding in May, Digicel this week stopped offering its Caribbean Plan to existing and prospective customers.

The plan had charged customers a flat rate for a bundle of  minutes to make inter-Caribbean calls. 

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission believes Digicel and LIME practised a margin squeeze.

     This was done against their smaller competitor, CCT Global Communications, in 2009 and 2010, using termination rates that the companies charge each other to connect calls on their networks.