WATERLOO, ON – Sandvine is powering an initiative by the Government of Guyana and local telco GTT to provide Guyanese subscribers with access to essential websites free of charge.
GTT’s Free Basic 4G Services offer provides its mobile subscribers with free 4G access to more than 20 essential news, health, education, and government websites. The free service is available on every data capable phone, without the need for subscribers to have an active data plan on their account.
In addition, Sandvine is assisting GTT to enable rollover data as well as zero-rating all Facebook and WhatsApp traffic on their daily, weekly, and monthly data plans.
“Sandvine is proud to be working with GTT to help bring the empowerment of the Internet to those who may not otherwise have a means to gain access,” said Sandvine CEO Dave Caputo, in the news release.
“Sandvine has made it easy for us to rapidly enable innovative, free and commercial subscriber services that will help us meet our goal of fostering a better quality of life for all Guyanese”, added GTT chief commercial officer Gert Post.
