Today the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA)published a Supplement to Consultation Document - ECS 21/2011. This supplement presents URCA's benchmarking exercise that is referred to in the substantive consultation document (ECS 21/2011). Downloads Supplement Notice
This Market Update is issued pursuant to URCA's approval on August 30, 2011 regarding BTC's application to apply a rate of zero as the retail charge for calls to automated ancillary services (weather and time of day/temperature services) and a rate of zero as the charge for the equivalent wholesale services. The Press Release can be viewed by clicking on the PDF document below. Downloads Press Release URCA Approved Retail Charging Proposals-Calls to Automated Ancillary Services
URCA today published a Final Determination and Order that it issued under sections 99 and 95 respectively of the Communications Act 2009 to Bartlett-Mcweeney Communications Limited, the operators of GEMS FM Radio 105.9 on May 26, 2011 arising from the failure of the Licensee to retain or to permit URCA to inspect or be provided with recordings pf programmes broadcase by the Licensee in February and March 2011. Pursuant to a request to URCA for an extension of the time period, the Licensee has until September 23, 2011 to comply with the Order. The Final Determination and Order can be…
Today the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) publish the Response received to the second round of consultation on its Public Consultation Document (ECS 09/2011) on “Methodology for Assessment of Significant Market Power”, which was issued on May 18th 2011. On Friday 1st July, 2011, URCA commenced the second round of consultation and invited both The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited (BTC) and Cable Bahamas Limited (CBL) to provide written comments to URCA on the Responses received by interested parties to the first round of consultation. URCA received a response from BTC during the second round of consultation, which is available…
