Digicel has issued a claim in the English High Court for multi-million pound damages against Cable and Wireless.
Denis O'Brien's Caribbean telecoms company claims that C&W was engaged in illegal behaviour by impeding and delaying Digicel's entry into various telecommunications markets in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Digicel said it believes "it has been the victim of a co-ordinated effort on C&W's part to prevent and delay Digicel launching competing mobile telephone networks in St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad & Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands".
Digicel claims "the obstructions and delays by C&W, between 2002 and 2006, have resulted in substantial damages and as a result Digicel's claim covers in form of losses of revenue, profits and market share".
