Ooredoo and ITU, the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology, are sponsoring a "Young Innovators Competition". The winners of the competition will be presented at ITU Telecom World 2014 in Doha, Qatar in December. Kindly download the PDF document below for details on how to apply Downloads ITU Young Innovators Competition 2014
URCA hereby notifies the public that, in exercise of its powers under section 9 of the Communications Act, 2009, it has commenced an investigation into the network outage experienced by The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited (BTC) on March 22, 2014. Accordingly, BTC is required to submit to URCA, on or before April 4, 2014, a full report in relation to the network outage, inclusive of a proposal for compensation to consumers affected by the outage. The full Public Notice can be downloaded by clicking on the PDF document below. Downloads Notice of Investigation of BTC's Network Outage
URCA hereby notifies the public that frequencies in the spectrum band 88 MHz to 108 MHz allocated under the National Spectrum Plan for FM Radio Broadcasting have been fully assigned for use on New Providence and, therefore, are currently exhausted and unavailable for any further assignment on the said island. A copy of the Public Notice may be downloaded by clicking on the PDF document below. Downloads Public Notice, Exhaustion of FM Radio Frequencies
Under the theme, Using Social Media for Good. How You can Protect Yourself Online, last evening’s Cyber Safety Forum was spearheaded by communications specialist, Kyle Walkine, one of two youth sponsored by URCA to attend last year’s International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Global Youth Summit which took place in Costa Rica, last September. URCA was pleased to additionally sponsor the forum, building on the momentum from the Global Summit in Costa Rica. Kyle was joined by a very well balanced panel of youthful insight and technical expertise, including, Kathleen Riviere-Smith, URCA CEO, Inspector Mark Barrett, Head of the Royal Bahamas Police…
