Air transport, telecoms: the country ensures rejoicing the competition

By Damien Grivois published La Dépêche de Tahiti see my news

With the announced arrival of the Natireva company by Christian Vernaudon, under the name of Air Moana, and that more modest of Motu Link by Alexandre Mu, the interinsular air service will experience profound changes.Air Tahiti is already competed in the Sous-le-winding islands by the company Tahiti Air Charter of the DEGUG Group.

Vice-President Jean-Christophe Bouissou, in charge of air transport, spoke of this subject with the press yesterday to the presidency.With the ambition displayed, in this case as in that of mobile telephony, to defend government independence in a context of agitation on social networks.

"There is a great interest of economic actors and investors, to the delight of users and the country," he said alongside the Director of the country's aviation service, Georges Puchon.Which said that a new request was filed on January 4 for a company called Air Bora Bora providing for the operation of two ATR 72-600."Competition will play," said Jean-Christophe Bouissou, who notes that the Pacific pearl remains "the" target.

It announces "significant" price reductions and stresses that the public service delegation (DSP) has already lowered the prices "from 20 to 25 % depending on the destinations".In the Marquesas, Tahiti Air Charter (TAC) is forced to finance rotations by helicopter, failing to have received the compliance of its operating manuals for the AUs Pou and Ua Huka tracks.As the Cessna Caravan received a short take-off kit, Jean-Christophe Bouissou explained that the civil aviation state service (SEAC) considered it "a used plane".But he was optimistic and touted for a launch of plane rotations "this month".

Telephony: a "bad trial"

"When we sign a contract, we execute a contract ..." The vice-president, who was at the time initiating the establishment of the Polynesian competition authority (APC), hammered that the government is always "Very favorable to competition ”, including in the mobile telephony file, despite criticism of support for Onati, a subsidiary of the OPT holding.

"The battle between Onati and Pacific Mobile Telecom is a battle for the execution of contracts passed freely between the parties," he said, not without declaring himself "sorrow that we mix with politics".He assured that the country was not trying to disadvantage Vodafone and denounced a "bad trial".He also regretted that the population was taken to task and attempted to calm the game between the two knife companies drawn: "I think the two operators have an interest in working together".In particular, to avoid an unnecessary multiplication of pylons, a competence which nevertheless returns to the regulator.

Finally, Jean-Christophe Bouissou reacted to the indignant statements of Father Christophe, relating to the administrative delays for the future reception center Te Vaiete.He first paid tribute to the work of the religious and wanted to assure him that there was "no machination against this file", but that there was "no passage,Including on a file that we want to be successful ”.Bernard Amigues, head of the development and town planning department, explained that it was not a simple file concerning a building of more than 650 m2 in R+1 and that the instructing agents have more900 files in stock.

The country has promised for 2022 a dematerialization of procedures with regard to requests for building permit and "an improvement in treatment flows".

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