Lawrence McNaughton, LIME's executive vice-president of carrier services for the Caribbean, told The Gleaner that at 1 p.m. yesterday, LIME customers in the Caribbean and some parts of the United Kingdom, United States and Canada were unable to contact Digicel customers in Jamaica.

He said this was due to the fact that Digicel had turned down a number of circuits, which take traffic from the rest of the region and from the US and other locations.

According to McNaughton, this breached a ruling previously made by the Office of Utilities Regulation, which gave LIME the go-ahead to deliver incoming international traffic to the Digicel network, and vice versa.

However, Digicel has rejected LIME's claim, stating instead that at 4 p.m. yesterday, Digicel customers were unable to call LIME landlines as they appeared to be have been blocked at the LIME end.

This was, however, denied by LIME executives.