This article was called a comparison. It is not going to be one, and the reason is worth more than the comparison would have been. Guyana's Public Utilities Commission publishes the approved rates for four providers of fixed home internet, which sounds like everything you need. But the Commission's own document does not put those rates on the same footing, so lining the monthly prices up in a single ranking would be a false promise. Below are the published figures, each with the provider it belongs to and the basis it was published on.
Where these figures come from
Everything in this article comes from one document: the Commission's Approved Telecommunications Rates, carrying the date as at 3 July 2026 on every page, read on 24 October 2026. We used the regulator rather than the providers deliberately. One Communications' own site is not reachable for an ordinary well-behaved client, and E-Networks publishes its packages only as images, so the regulator's table is the only text version of these prices we could actually read.
All amounts are in Guyana dollars per month, as published. We are not printing a US dollar conversion. We could not read a dated official exchange rate today, and a conversion invented here would go stale faster than the tariff it was attached to. Use the Bank of Guyana's published rate for the day you are actually budgeting.
One Communications: fiber, DSL and fixed wireless
The fiber plans are named for a number that is not the speed, which trips people up when they compare offers. The plan called 100+ runs at 200 Mbps. Read the speed column, not the plan name:
- 20+ — 20 Mbps — $8,399
- 50+ — 50 Mbps — $9,399
- 100+ — 200 Mbps — $10,399
- 200+ — 300 Mbps — $11,399
- 300+ — 400 Mbps — $13,399
- 400+ — 500 Mbps — $15,399
- 600+ — 1,000 Mbps — $20,399
There is a second fiber range worth knowing about if your working day cannot absorb an outage. The BBU plans run at $11,899 for 200 Mbps, $12,899 for 300 Mbps, $14,899 for 400 Mbps and $16,899 for 500 Mbps, and the table's footnote explains the premium: BBU plans are packaged with a Backup Battery Unit designed to last for up to 4 hours. That is the regulator's wording, and four hours is the figure it gives.
DSL still exists and it is slower than guides suggest. The approved DSL table has exactly three tiers — Bronze at 1.5 Mbps for $5,899, Silver at 5 Mbps for $6,099 and Gold at 10 Mbps for $8,399. If you have seen DSL in Guyana described as reaching twenty megabits, that is not in the approved table; ten is the ceiling there.
The fixed wireless data plans carry a data cap and, unusually for this document, a stated installation fee: FASTR 5 at $6,999 for 5 Mbps with a 250 GB cap, FASTR 10 at $8,999 for 10 Mbps with 350 GB, and FASTR 10+ at $9,999 for 10 Mbps with 500 GB. All three show an installation fee of $12,000, and that section is marked Prices vat exclusive.
Digicel, E-Networks and Starlink
Digicel is the only provider in the document that publishes an upload speed, and its fixed internet section is headed VAT exclusive. Fibre X 250 (Residential) is 250 Mbps down and 35 Mbps up at $9,648; Fibre X 350 (Residential) is 350 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up at $12,999. Installation is listed at $15,000 VAT inclusive and relocation at $10,000 VAT exclusive. The document dates these plans as effective 1 August 2023 and approved by the Commission on 8 November 2024 — nearly three years older than the rest of the table.
E-Networks lists four fixed plans, effective 1 July 2026: 4G Home at $7,900, 5G Home at $11,400, a 300 Mbps plan at $8,900 and a 600 Mbps plan at $13,100. Note what is missing: the two Home plans are named for a network generation, not a speed, and no speed is stated for either.
Starlink publishes Residential with unlimited data at $11,700, Residential Lite with unlimited data at $8,000 and a Standby plan at $2,000. No speed is stated for any of them. Two notes in that section matter for budgeting: Starlink does not have an activation fee in Guyana at this time nor do they plan to offer hardware rentals in Guyana at this time, and the residential plans were approved by the Commission on 12 June 2026 with effect from 18 June 2026.
Why these numbers do not rank against each other
The Commission's document is not consistent about tax, and it says so in its own markings. Digicel's fixed internet table is headed VAT exclusive. One Communications' fixed wireless section says prices are VAT exclusive. One Communications' fiber table, the E-Networks table and the Starlink table say nothing at all about VAT. So the printed monthly figures are not on the same VAT basis, and the gap between two plans that look a few hundred dollars apart may be entirely tax treatment.
The effective dates differ too, by years. Ask every provider for a quote that states the VAT position in writing, and compare those quotes rather than the numbers above. The numbers above tell you the order of magnitude and nothing finer.
What is not published, and what that means for you
Three things people most want from a page like this are not in the regulator's document, and we are not going to supply them from memory.
- Coverage. There is no service-area statement, no map and no neighborhood list anywhere in the approved rates. A tariff is not an availability promise. Whether fiber reaches a specific address is a question only the provider can answer about that address.
- Installation lead times. Two providers publish an installation fee. Not one publishes how long installation takes. Any waiting period you have read is somebody's recollection.
- Upload speeds, except at Digicel. If you run video calls or push large files, upload is the number that decides your day, and only one provider in the document states it.
Ask for all three in writing before you sign, and get the answer attached to the address you are moving into, not to the city.
What expats should know
- Four providers publish approved fixed internet rates with the Public Utilities Commission: One Communications, Digicel, E-Networks and Starlink.
- The cheapest published fiber plan is $8,399 a month for 20 Mbps, from One Communications.
- Read the speed column, not the plan name. One Communications' 100+ plan is 200 Mbps.
- The monthly figures are not on the same VAT basis, so they cannot be ranked against each other as printed.
- Only Digicel publishes an upload speed. Ask for yours in writing.
- Nobody publishes coverage or installation lead times. Treat both as address-level questions for the provider.
- DSL tops out at 10 Mbps in the approved table, and starts at $5,899.
- Battery backup is a separate plan range, and the regulator states it is designed for up to four hours.
Where to check
Every figure here is from the Public Utilities Commission's Approved Telecommunications Rates, dated as at 3 July 2026 and read on 24 October 2026. The seven One Communications fiber prices also appear in our own approved reference data, measured on 3 July 2026 from the same document, and the two sets agree figure for figure. For a conversion into your own currency, use the Bank of Guyana's published rate on the day you need it. For coverage, installation timing and the VAT position on your own quote, the provider is the only source.
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