ABSTRACT
Things have changed radically over the last few years, but telecom’s glob al environment today is anything but completely liberalized. It is true that many o f the legal barriers have been lowered, but in many cases, they have been replaced by practical considerations that are sometimes even more restrictive. In the Caribbean for instance, the UK company, Cable and Wireless, still has such a death grip on telecommunications, that it is still impossible even in this new Millennium to find an alternative carrier. Many o f England’s first New World colonies were in the Caribbean, and it appears that this English company has no intention o f letting the sun set on its corporate flag in the region anytime soon.
