Articles tagged with: Btc

CEO says Bahamas Telecommunications will better service 'across the board' in 2013

Bahamas Telecommunications Company (btc) CEO Geoff Houston says that he expects btc service to improve strongly in 2013 as the Company's new and upgraded, nation-wide telecommunications infrastructure is completed replacing the 30-year-old obsolete system. more

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Lightning Strike Knocks Out Phone Services in Northern Bahamas

Bahamas Telecommunications Company (btc) says that its engineers worked through the night to restore mobile service to the Northern Bahamas after a massive lightning strike impacted a key network transponder in the evening. more

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Bahamas Telecom Sees Surge in Mobile Data Traffic Following HSPA+ Upgrade

Bahamas based btc says that mobile data traffic on its HSPA+ network has "skyrocketed" since the service was switched on last December. more

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Bahamas Regulator Issues 700Mhz Radio Spectrum Licenses

The Bahamas based telecoms regulator, URCA has awarded a 700 MHz spectrum license to the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (btc). The license is valid for of fifteen years and are approved for use by LTE services.
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Globul Takes Complaint about Bulgarian Telecoms Market to EU Officials

Bulgaria's Globul says that it has notified the European Commission's officials of what it says is the continuing monopoly tactics carried out by the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company (btc). Globul alleges that btc sustains its monopolistic position in the fixed market and continues to impede alternative operators' access to the incumbent's infrastructure due to high prices, slow procedures and lack of effective regulation. more

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Bahamas BTC Cautiously Optimistic About Financial Results

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (btc) has said that it is "cautiously optimistic" that fiscal year 2009 will witness a marked improvement in profit performance over the 2008 numbers despite the ongoing economic recession in the Bahamas. more

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Bulgarian Operator Signs Exclusive Distribution Deal

Bulgaria's courier and logistics service, M&BM Express has signed an exclusive agreement to resell mobile services for btc and its mobile phone subsidiary, Vivatel in its 34 offices across the country. All btc clients will be able to pay in cash the bill for their landline phone, choose services, or buy a phone card and electronic vouchers for the pre-paid btc service in the M&BM Express network. more

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Government to Privatise Bahamas Telecommunications Company

..on the submission of the Registration Form are available at: http://www.btcprivatization.com/. In related news, BTC has completed the first phase of its IP network migration, using Sonus Networks supplied hardware. This first phase of the full more

Comptel Wins Follow-on OSS Order from Bahamas Telecoms

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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies

Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more