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BTC explains recent connectivity issues
BTC explains recent connectivity issues
Over the last several weeks, residents in some Family Islands have experienced down time with their landline, internet, and mobile services, due to power-related issues and malicious acts.
BTC and Cable Bahamas say they cannot bear the cost of 5G rollout alone
Cable Bahamas Ltd. (CBL)/Aliv and Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) are concerned with the eventual cost of the rollout of 5G - with BTC noting in the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority's (URCA) recently released 'Public Consultation on the Demand for Enhanced Internet Connectivity and 5G in The Bahamas' - that the two mobile companies cannot bear the cost of 5G alone.
Hearing for BTC unions' sale block bid set for end of month
UNIONS representing BTC workers are expected back in court for a hearing in their bid to block the sale of 51 per cent of the telecommunications company to Cable and Wireless (CWC) at the end of this month.
The unions - the Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union (BCPOU) and the Bahamas Public Managers Union (BCPMU) - filed the joint action in the Supreme Court earlier this month.
The d...
PLP says the entire BTC privatization process under the FNM is Bogus
Nassau, Bahamas - Enclosed is a Press Statement By
The Progressive Liberal Party.
As has been confirmed to The
Tribune by a source close to the privatization process, the MOU
obtained from a confidential source and made public by the PLP is
substantially correct.
We echo the voices of Bernard Evans, William Carroll, Leon Williams
Nicki Kelly and numerous others who have expressed grave concerns...
Unions to hold 'strategy' meeting over BTC sale
Unions to hold 'strategy' meeting over BTC sale
By TANEKA THOMPSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
tthompson@tribunemedia.net
THE unions opposing BTC's sale to Cable & Wireless will convene for a "strategy" meeting today in their continued fight against privatisation, said Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union President Bernard Evans.
Mr Evans said the current Supreme Court case launched by the BCPOU and the Bahamas Communications and Pub...
Letter: Unions in BTC issue have truly amazed me
Letter: Unions in BTC issue have truly amazed me
EDITOR, The Tribune.
They essentially are trying to convince all of us that the real issue for them is Bahamian ownership of BTC, really now! Who really believes that they are more concerned about whether Bahamians own the company or that they obtain the benefits, for themselves that they perceive they should receive.
Yet we get all of this talk about Bahamianisation and Bahamians owning the...
BTC blasts 'excessive' fees faced
BTC blasts 'excessive' fees faced
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has hit out at the "excessively high licence fees" levied on Bahamian telecoms industry operators, describing a Communications Licence Fee equivalent to 3 per cent of annual turnover as "onerous", given that it cannot be paid in installments.
Responding yesterday to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Aut...
PLP asks: More abuse, conflict of interest and corruption at BTC
Nassau, Bahamas - Enclosed is a
Press Statement By
The Progressive Liberal Party.
Today we ask questions about
how Cable & Wireless's (C&W) former employee Howard Mason was
hired by the Bahamas Telecommunication Company (BTC).
Highly reliable sources deep within BTC have advised that a Bahamian
woman formerly held the position of Acting Chief Information Officer
(ACIO). Our sources...
20 questions inspired by BTC deal
20 questions inspired by BTC deal
1. Why does anybody care what the PLP has to say about the sale of BTC to Cable and Wireless after their Bluewater bungle just four short years ago? OK, I know why they care. But should they?
2. Why, if you had a downsizing exercise at BTC in 1999, is the company again 30 percent overstaffed in 2011? Because politicians can’t help but hire people for votes? Because the original downsizing ne...
BTC continues to invest in Bahamian talent
BTC continues to invest in Bahamian talent
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — BTC has recently onboarded its 2023 "Graduate" in the person of 23-year-old Kaneisha Victoria Johnson. BTC's Graduate Program is a part of its parent company, Liberty Latin America's strategy to attract and develop young professional talent that will be ready to assume managerial positions upon finalization of a two-year program of hands-on [...]