JT is given 21 days to justify landline prices

During that three-week window, JT says that it will present the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities with new evidence to support its argument that benchmarking fixed-line prices against Guernsey, where they are marginally cheaper, is flawed and that its pricing is already offering good value to consumers.

In December last year, CICRA ruled that JT’s prices were too high and, under its statutory powers, ordered that the company cut the cost of landline calls by ‘RPI –6.5%’ each year for the next two years, and restrict price increases the year after that.

JT took its fight against the watchdog’s ruling to the Royal Court last week, saying it had new evidence to present and was given 21 days to present that information to CICRA.

In a statement released, JT’s director of corporate affairs, Daragh McDermott, said: ‘JT has formally appealed against CICRA’s Final Notice on a Retail Price Control, and the Royal Court has consented to putting the legal proceedings on hold in order that a resolution can be discussed between the parties.

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