Today March 27, 2012, the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) releases for public consultation its Preliminary Determination and Draft Order, for the application of the Code of Practice for Content Regulation to Carriage Services, Content Services and On-Demand Audiovisual Media Services and the application of Must Carry Obligations to Content Services Intended for Reception by Subscribers of Carriage Services in The Bahamas. This Preliminary Determination gives notice that URCA proposes to issue a Final Determination. On March 2, 2012 URCA published its Statement of Results and Final Decision on the widely consulted Code of Practice for the Regulation of…
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) has today opened the 700MHz, 11GHz, 12GHz and 42GHz spectrum bands. In support of these openings, URCA has also today issued the policies which govern URCA’s administration of these bandwidths, including the terms and conditions by which licenses will be awarded (URCA document reference ECS 09/2012). The 700 MHz spectrum band, ranging from 698 MHz to 806 MHz, is expected to draw significant industry interest. The range offers broad coverage and high capacity making it especially suited to the latest generation of mobile and fixed data technologies. Globally, it is the dominant band…
Today URCA published the Final Decision on the Code of Practice for Content Service. Downloads Press Release - Political Broadcasting Press Release - Content Code
February 16, 2012, the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) released for public consultation, a “Cost Efficiency Study of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited (BTC)”, [URCA document reference number ECS 04/2012]. The exercise supports the regulator’s extensive engagement with BTC, electronic communication sector (ECS) participants and the public at large, to establish standards for Reference Access and Interconnection Offers (RAIO) by BTC. URCA is concerned with both wholesale and retail pricing behaviour of SMPs. BTCs fixed and mobile retail voice services are subject to price regulation. URCA’s cost efficiency exercise is intended to ensure that its regulation of wholesale prices,…
