LTA Cites Lonestar

Liberia Telecommunications Authority
12th Street Sinkor – Tubman Boulevard
Monrovia, Liberia

Monrovia, Liberia: May 22, 2012 The Board of Commissioners of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority has cited the management of the Lonestar Communications Corporation to an administrative hearing to show cause why the LTA should not suspend Lonestar’s license for violation of the Telecommunications Act of 2007 and LTA’s Interconnection Regulations issued in 2009.

The LTA decision comes in the wake of Lonestar’s failure to heed LTA’s ultimatum mandating it to fully reconnect Comium Liberia to its interconnection trunk by 5:00 p.m. on Monday May 21, 2012.

In a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of Lonestar Communications Corporation Mr. Mazen Mroue the LTA said data available to the LTA management shows that Comium is not fully re-connected as it was prior to Lonestar’s unilateral action of May 18, 2012 in complete defiance to LTA’s instructions issued yesterday Monday May 22, 2012
As a result, the letter stated, the Lonestar should bring along to this show cause hearing which has been scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday May 23, 2012, its legal counsel and that failure to attend will result in the LTA taking appropriate remedial actions.

The LTA yesterday Monday May 21, 2012 issued a Press Statement mandating the Chief Executive Officer of LoneStar to reconnect Comium Liberia.