The Tele­com Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) has turned down three ap­pli­cants who re­spond­ed to its re­quests for pro­pos­al for a con­ces­sion and as­so­ci­at­ed li­cence to op­er­ate a pub­lic do­mes­tic mo­bile net­work and to pro­vide pub­lic telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices.

"Of the three ap­pli­ca­tions re­ceived, none achieved the over­all pass mark of 70 per cent and fur­ther, none sat­is­fied the cri­te­ria for Fi­nan­cial Sta­bil­i­ty set out in the RFP," TATT said in a state­ment. The Au­thor­i­ty said on the clos­ing date of Feb­ru­ary 6, 2009, three com­pa­nies sub­mit­ted pro­pos­als, these com­pa­nies in­clude:

�2 Spir­itage T&T Ltd, St Clair, Port-of-Spain;

�2 Mo­bile Net­works of T&T Ltd, Kelshall Street, San Fer­nan­do;

�2 Ka­lyp­so Hold­ings (Trinidad) Ltd, c/o cham­bers of JA Hud­son-phillips, Port-of-Spain.

TATT said the pro­pos­als were as­sessed on four con­di­tions:

�2 com­pa­ny in­for­ma­tion and back­ground;

�2 track record and ex­pe­ri­ence;

�2 fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty;

�2 vi­a­bil­i­ty of pro­pos­al.

The com­pa­nies which re­spond­ed to the pro­pos­als were al­so re­quired to achieve a cer­tain score.

"For an ap­pli­cant to be suc­cess­ful, the ap­pli­cant was re­quired to achieve a score of no less than 70 per cent over­all, and no less than 50 per cent in each of the four main cri­te­ria. TATT said it has been di­rect­ed by the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter to en­sure that there be more com­pe­ti­tion in the mo­bile sec­tor, while main­tain­ing stan­dards set by TATT. TATT said its top pri­or­i­ty is to bring an­oth­er provider in­to the mo­bile sec­tor in T&T.