… says he is anchored in the past
Managing Director of the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU), Valmikki Singh finds it “reckless” and “unprofessional” that Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Board member, Tony Vieira, is attempting to stymie Guyana’s advancement into the digital technology age. Vieira, in a recent public statement, argued that Guyana “(does) not have to go digital”, referring to the evolution from analogue transmission to digital transmission.

Tony Vieira
Analogue transmission is a method of conveying voice, data, image, signal, or video information, using a continuous signal varying in amplitude, phase, or another property that is in proportion to a specific characteristic of a variable.
Analogue transmission could mean that the transmission is a transfer of an analogue source signal which uses an analogue modulation method. FM and AM are examples of such a modulation.
Digital transmission, on the other hand, is a literal transfer of data over a point to point (or point to multi-point) transmission medium – such as copper wires, optical fibres, wireless communications media, or storage media. The data that is to be transferred is often represented as an electro-magnetic signal (such as a microwave).
Anchored in the past
Vieira argued that there is “nothing which is written in stone” that says Guyana must go digital and accused the NFMU of planning the change-over without consultation and consideration of how such a radical transformation will affect the poor.

Valmikki Singh
This argument is unbelievable. Of course Guyana must go digital or how can Guyanese ever expect the good life? Portable land lines?