The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) is pleased to publish its Draft Annual Plan and Budget for 2019 (URCA 08/2018). This document outlines: A brief review of URCA’s achievements in 2018: URCA’s focus areas and key priorities for 2019; URCA’s key projects for 2019, including its planned consultation schedule for the year; A series of the key performance indicators which URCA shall use to measure its performance during the year; and URCA’s proposed Budget for financial year 2019. URCA hereby invites and welcomes comments and submissions from members of the public, licensees and other interested parties on the matters contained in this Draft…
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) hereby gives notice that on 7 December 2018 a Basic Notification Form (the Notification) for the proposed change in control between Dwight C. Hart T/A Breeze FM (the Licensee) and Alternative Venture Holdings Limited (AVHL) has been submitted to URCA for approval. To view full notice, click here.
Consumers affected by a regulatory breach by the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) can expect to receive a $100 credit applied to their cellular mobile account on 12 December 2018. The credit to affected consumers is the result of a determination made by URCA on 7 May 2018. URCA found that on 24 and 25 November 2017, BTC failed to comply with the requirements of the rules and regulations relating to mobile number portability causing unacceptable delays to 514 customers seeking to “port” their telephone numbers to Be Aliv Limited (Aliv). The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has paid a fine of…
When the new session of the Council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), meets to begin its work for the next four years, The Bahamas will be seated as one of the Council’s 48 member states. The Bahamas was successful in its first bid to sit on council gaining the vote of 162 member states, out of a possible 177 present and voting. The election to Council took place during the second week of the ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference, (ITU PP) currently underway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, UAE. The ITU PP is the supreme organ of the ITU at which…
