9 July 2021 (NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS) The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) has issued a Request for Applications (RFA) for an Individual Spectrum Licence (ISL) for use of the frequency 90.7 MHz or 105.7 MHz to provide FM radio broadcast services on the island of New Providence, Bahamas. In June 2021, URCA conducted a review of the radio spectrum being used for FM Radio Broadcasting on the island of New Providence and as a result of their band survey, the independent regulator determined that the two frequencies could now be made available for FM radio broadcast service in New…
8 July 2021 The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) today published its Statement of Results and Final Decision in response to the applications made by Cable Bahamas Limited (CBL) to restructure its residential and business pay television packages. CBL submitted the application for residential REVTV offers on 27 October 2020 and later submitted the application for business REVTV offers on 20 January 2021. URCA, having reviewed and analysed the applications and its supporting documentation, has approved CBL’s repackaging applications. The approval inter alia requires CBL to notify URCA of the implementation date for the changes and give customers a…
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS (July 5th 2021) The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), the independent Regulator for the Electricity Sector (ES) in The Bahamas issues both the finalized “Tariff Review Framework, Guidelines and Procedures for Public Electricity Suppliers” as well as the “Statement of Results and Final Decision” to its preceding public consultation document. URCA initiated its public consultation process for the new guidelines in March 2021, inviting Licensees to provide written responses by 23 April 2021. The Statement of Results provides the regulator’s analysis of the submissions made by respondents and sets forth URCA’s review and final decision. The…
Today, the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) published on its website the first-round responses received to the consultation on the Review of draft wholesale Dedicated Internet Access reference offers from BTC and CBL (ECS 02/2021). On 26 February 2021, URCA launched a two-round consultation process in respect of the captioned regulatory measure. With the publication of first-round responses on its website, URCA now invites written comments on the views expressed by Coakster Wireless, Judith Smith, and Wicom Bahamas Ltd. in their first-round responses on the consultation. Copies of all first-round responses may be downloaded here. Persons who wish to…
