[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] URCA Donates to the Salvation Army[/caption] URCA ended 2013 with corporate giving. Including gifts to schools in the local community where URCA’s office is located: Doris Johnson Senior High School received 8 computer systems. The School’s IT teacher recently introduced Computer Aided Draft and Design (CADD) to the computing curriculum. Uriah McPhee Primary School received 2 computer systems for use in the School’s library. URCA’s gift also included 1-year subscription and licenses to online educational programmes including Brain Pop, Brain Pop Jr, Brain Pop Espanol and Reading A – Z. URCA also donated to the Children’s…
URCA will be closed Tuesday December 24, 2013 to Friday December 27, 2013, reopening on Monday December 30, 2013 for normal business hours. URCA will however close half day on Tuesday December 31 2013, reopening on Thursday January 2, 2014, for usual business operations.
The Utilities Regulation & Competition Authority (URCA) has extended the deadline to respond to the public consultation “Proposed Review and Revision to the Regulation of Retail Prices for SMP Operators – Rules” [URCA document reference ECS 16/2013], by four weeks. The deadline has been revised from December 6, 2013 to January 3, 2014.
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) announces that number portability for fixed telephone lines in The Bahamas will not become available on September 3, 2013 as projected. Based on its latest technical reviews of operator readiness for fixed number portability implementation, URCA is not satisfied that consumers would at this time receive a seamless and satisfactory number porting experience. URCA expects to issue a final determination on the matter before the end of September, at which time a revised time line for the implementation of fixed number portability in The Bahamas will be outlined. In the meantime, URCA’s monitoring…
