Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Our first question is from the line of Mr. Gaurav Jaitly. Please go ahead, sir.
Gaurav Jaitly - UBS
Great, thank you. Good morning guys.
Justin Benincasa
Good morning.
Gaurav Jaitly - UBS
Hey just a couple of questions on the Guyana business. First, the international long distance revenues the growth accelerated pretty nicely year-over-year. I was just wondering if there were any onetime wasn't there or I don't know, how you expect this growth in this business do trend in 2008 would be great? And then on the wireless side, the domestic wireless business there you're talking about, I mean what seems to have slowed there, it will be great, you can get some color on anything wireless [manufacturers] in the market right now and what market should you have in the Guyana business? And then finally on the regulatory side, you probably can't give us too much color here but just one thing you just talked about you hope to get some resolution around that in 2008? Just wondering what is an ideal case -- what would be the ideal scenario as this thing kind of play that over 2008? Thank you.
Justin Benincasa
Sure. To answer to the -- in order the first question of international result. I think international the growth there is really a case of increased penetration both the wireline and wireless. So, the overall density and the market was up so that just means, they are more -- where more people, who can be reached and more frequently and more readily. So, I think that driven this and if we're right in our assessment that the penetration can continue to grow with that rate that, that doesn't mean that -- that will be case with international.
And then of course for the year, we had some benefits that in the first to second quarter from Cricket and other event that you know may -- we may not see again in '08. On the Guyana wireless competition it's extremely hard and almost entirely prepaid market to say what market share is, I mean you can -- you can acquire a customer and say the customer just I gave him an handset for free or for sort of minimal amount.
So, what does that mean? I do think we look more at the revenue numbers and traffic until you say with revenue down a bit, there is definitely, it's clear that our competitor has a significant share of the market. It's really hard to say exactly what they have. We don't think they have more than the majority. If I had to guess I'd say 40% of the market it could be 30%, 35% it could be little more than 40. But I think 40 is probably the high end of what it is.
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