Today, URCA published a REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) – Professional Services document ECS 24/2010. It was developed to solicit responses from a range of consultants and consulting firms to form a roster of relevant expertise. From time to time, URCA engages consultants to assist with developing positions on specialized topics, therefore the roster will assist URCA, when it needs to draw upon specific policy and regulation expertise in communications, water and energy to supplement its own in-house expertise . All Responses should be addressed to the Attention of the Chief Executive Officer of URCA and should be received by URCA…
Today, URCA published a Public Consultation to Initiate the Opening of New Spectrum Bands. This work follows the publication of the National Spectrum Plan on 12 March 2010. The document is to solicit views on the proposed opening of new spectrum bands and to invite expressions of interest for frequency assignments from interested parties. The spectrum bands under consideration in this consultation are those where there are no existing frequency assignments. The Consultation Document ECS 23/2010 can be downloaded from this site under the Publications "Consultations" tab.
Section 116 of the Communications Act 2009 (the “Comms Act”) sets out presumptions of Significant Market Power (SMP) for Bahamas Telecommunications Company (“BTC”) and Cable Bahamas Limited (“CBL”) for two high level markets respectively and imposes a duty on URCA to determine which specific, if any, ex ante obligations should be imposed on these two operators. The obligations are to be “designed to maintain … the objective of encouraging, promoting and enforcing sustainable competition”. The consultation process on this matter started at the end of September 2009 with the publication of Preliminary Determinations and accompanying guidelines. Since then there have…
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) publishes its Public Register of all individual licensees, including named licensees and relevant subsidiary undertakings and all registered class licensees. The Public Register is in electronic form however, URCA will maintain hard copies of its Public Register at its principal office for inspection by the public on request during normal business hours without charge. URCA will also maintain hard copies of Individual Licences and Class Licences Requiring Registration at its principal office for inspection by the public on request during normal business hours without charge. Where any member of the public requires or…
