Comments on: Sector liberalisation: some considerations as the Bahamas opens its mobile/cellular market to competition https://ict-pulse.com/2014/04/sector-liberalisation-considerations-bahamas-opens-mobilecellular-market-competition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sector-liberalisation-considerations-bahamas-opens-mobilecellular-market-competition&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sector-liberalisation-considerations-bahamas-opens-mobilecellular-market-competition Discussing ICT, telecommunications and technology Issues from a Caribbean perspective Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Thompson https://ict-pulse.com/2014/04/sector-liberalisation-considerations-bahamas-opens-mobilecellular-market-competition/#comment-170963 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:57:59 +0000 http://www.ict-pulse.com/?p=54774#comment-170963 The size of these countries make it compressing or confining to different operators to post/set up facilities at different sites and still maintain optimum and efficient coverage. Site sharing is therefore critical, don’t know how much of this Caribbean governments have been able to mandate, in Trinidad and Tobago it is zilch.

Since the regional inhabitants are usually in transit from one island to the other the integrated region network roaming services provided by the two regional operators has to be matched by any third player in the market.for them to be competitive. An alternative approach is that virtual networks have to be sanctioned to allow entry to small operators using wholesale facilities that will interconnect to the big networks to provide niche services (applications or content) off their virtual networks that subscribers on all networks can access and make use of. Market needs to develop not to only sell connectivity but to sell access to any array of data content,and applications service that may appeal to the range of subscribers on all networks.

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