Today, URCA published a Request for Proposals for Information Technology Support Services as it wishes to engage the services of a suitably qualified firm or individual to provide Information Technology support services. All proposals should be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of URCA, and should be received on or before February 22, 2013. The Request for Proposals and complete Notice may be downloaded via below links. Downloads URCA Notice RFP for IT Support Services Request for Proposals, Information Technology Support Services URCA Notice RFP for IT Support Services
Today, URCA published a Request for Proposals for External Legal Services as it wishes to engage the services of suitably qualified Legal Practitioners to provide Legal Services. All proposals should be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of URCA, and should be received by URCA on or before March 1, 2013. The Request for Proposals and complete Notice may be downloaded via below links. Downloads URCA Notice; RFP External Legal Services Request for Proposals External Legal Services
On January 23, 2013, The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) published “Guidelines for the Type Approval of Licence-Exempt Radio Spectrum Devices”, pursuant to the exemption provision contained in Section 17 of the Communications Act, 2009. The guidelines are intended to supplement ECS 24/2009 Annex G, issued 2 November 2009. The Type Approval process established by these Guidelines is applicable to radio spectrum devices not requiring electronic communications service or networks and is intended to verify that the device complies with standards adopted by URCA. A PDF document copy of the Guidelines may be downloaded via the below link. Downloads…
Following its investigation into the Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited’s (BTC) network outage on June 18th of this year, the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) made a preliminary finding that BTC breached Condition 27.1.1 (a) of its individual operating licence, by failing to take all reasonably practicable steps to maintain, to the greatest extent possible, the proper and effective functioning of its public telephone network. Accordingly, URCA issued a Preliminary Determination and Draft Order to BTC on December 21, 2012. The Preliminary Determination outlines URCA’s investigative findings and the Draft Order prescribes measures to be imposed on BTC, in order…
