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<\/a>Monday, 24 September 2012<\/h3>\nBTC Concerned Over URCA\u2019s Regulatory Moves<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) fears proposals to lower its mobile call termination rate will slash its international revenues by up to $1.5 million annually, reducing its ability to invest in infrastructure and benefit Bahamians\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC’s 2010 Separated Account Audit ‘Qualified’<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 All key Bahamian communications industry players are opposed to using the Bahamas Telecommunications Company\u2019s (BTC) historical cost data as the basis to set its future interconnection charges, with the newly-privatised carrier admitting auditors were unable to give its 2010 separated accounts a clean bill of health\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Flow Brings Subscription Video OnDemand To Jamaican Homes<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited, operators of Flow and Columbus Business Solutions, is introducing a subscription video-OnDemand service\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Lotto scammers could be extradited from Jamaica<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 Lotto scammers in Jamaica may soon be extradited to face charges overseas\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Montserrat making strides in improving service delivery through ICT<\/h4>\nMontserrat <\/em>\u2013 The government of Montserrat is leading the charge to ensure that the island becomes a fully enabled ICT society able to attract high value businesses and jobs for its people\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Tuesday, 25 September 2012<\/h3>\n![\"http:\/\/www.eleutheranews.com\/\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ict-pulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BTCLogo-The-Eleutheran.jpg?resize=219%2C130\" "\\"BTCLogo")
<\/a>Cell Phone Trade-in Expected to Help Rid Market of 2300 Outdated Models, 250,000 Mobile Phones<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 BTC customers using cell phones that do little more than handle conversation will be able to trade them in for phones that do just about everything but guarantee happiness with a 10-day trade-in-and-up campaign aimed at ridding The Bahamas of some 2,300 models of antiquated phones\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
AMS-IX To Assume CAR-IX Management And Operations<\/h4>\nCuracao <\/em>\u2013 The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) takes responsibility for the management and operations of the Caribbean Internet Exchange (CAR-IX) and rebrands it to AMS-IX Caribbean\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Alleged Internet hacker for court today<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Ronald Oates, the man believed to be the mastermind of a computer hacking extortion ring, is expected to appear in court today on an additional charge\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Wednesday, 26 September 2012<\/h3>\nCopper Thieves Continue to Plague APUA<\/h4>\n
Antigua & Barbuda<\/em> \u2013 The police are yet again inundated with a number of reports of theft of copper wire from cell sites belonging to Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC launches unique trade-in offer<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 BTC customers using cell phones that do little more than handle conversations will be able to trade them in for phones that do just about everything but guarantee happiness, with a 10-day trade-in-and-up campaign aimed at ridding The Bahamas of some 2,300 models of antiquated phones\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Call Termination Cuts \u2018A Beautiful Thing\u2019<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 A rival telecommunications provider yesterday said it was \u201c100 per cent behind\u201d plans to cut the Bahamas Telecommunications Company\u2019s (BTC) call termination rates by up to 60 per cent, telling Tribune Business the proposed 2 cents per minute slash for 2013 was \u201ca beautiful thing\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"http:\/\/www.jazztellbahamas.com\/\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ict-pulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jazztell-Bahamas-logo.jpg?resize=156%2C96\" "\\"Jazztell")
<\/a>Telco Eyes Staff \u2018Tripling\u2019 Through 25% Revenue Rise<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 A niche Bahamian telecommunications operator yesterday said it planned to triple staff numbers by 2012 year-end, as it moves to \u2018ramp up\u2019 ahead of an expected 25 per cent year-over-year revenue increase in 2013\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Columbus Closes Acquisition of TeleBarbados and Tele St. Lucia<\/h4>\nBarbados<\/em> \u2013 Columbus International Inc. (“Columbus”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of TeleBarbados Inc. and Tele St. Lucia Inc\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Vietnamese mobile operator to launch in Dominican Republic<\/h4>\nDominican Republic <\/em>\u2013 Vietnamese mobile operator Viettel plans to launch mobile voice and internet services in the Dominican Republic, according to press reports\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Thursday, 27 September 2012<\/h3>\nBahamians Say No To Rise In Cable Price<\/h4>\n
Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Bahamians are \u201cprimarily against\u201d Cable Bahamas\u2019 proposed price increase, according to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority\u2019s CEO who was remarking on the corporation\u2019s most recent town hall meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC Targets Early 2013 For System \u201810x Faster\u2019 Than 4G<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) plans to introduce its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network within the first three months of 2013, the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business yesterday that the full roll-out would require 12-18 months\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC to launch TV\u2008trial early 2013<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to enter the trial phase of its much-anticipated television product early next year\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"https:\/\/blinksignup.tstt.net.tt\/new\/index.cfm\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ict-pulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Blink-Trinidad-logo.jpg?resize=154%2C80\" "\\"Blink")
<\/a>Blink \/ bmobile telecoms stimulus<\/h4>\nTrinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has taken yet another bold step in its quest to deliver more cost effective, value-added and hassle free services to customers with the re-launch of an enhanced business suite of services\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Friday, 28 September 2012<\/h3>\nBTC To Invest $20-$30m To Bring NGN ‘To Market’<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to be \u201cwell positioned\u201d to win back market share in the fixed-line Internet broadband market via its Next Generation Network (NGN), the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business it will invest a further $20-$30 million \u201cto bring it to market\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"http:\/\/www.belizeweb.com\/telemedia-related-sites.htm\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ict-pulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Belize-Telemedia.jpg?resize=155%2C89\" "\\"Belize")
<\/a>Dividends not declared at Telemedia AGM<\/h4>\nBelize<\/em> \u2013 Speculation on whether or not dividends will be declared at the tonight\u2019s annual general meeting of Belize Telemedia Limited is over\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Will BTL Defy CCJ?<\/h4>\nBelize <\/em>\u2013 Court says telecom company must wait to issue dividends; Board Chair, Net Vasquez, says company will \u201cdeal with agenda\u201d for meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Scammers didn’t hack systems says LIME<\/h4>\nCayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 In the wake of a text message sent directly to LIME customers’ telephones across Cayman on Wednesday declaring that everyone had won $500,000 from scammers in Thailand, the local phone company said its systems had not been compromised\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Karib Cable Introduces New Channels<\/h4>\nSt. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Digicel plan to sell El Salvador interests rejected by regulator<\/h4>\nEl Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"http:\/\/www.cnetusa.com\/distributors.php\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ict-pulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Intcomex-logo.jpg?resize=173%2C36\" "\\"Intcomex")
<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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Jamaica <\/em>\u2013 Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited, operators of Flow and Columbus Business Solutions, is introducing a subscription video-OnDemand service\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Lotto scammers could be extradited from Jamaica<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 Lotto scammers in Jamaica may soon be extradited to face charges overseas\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Montserrat making strides in improving service delivery through ICT<\/h4>\nMontserrat <\/em>\u2013 The government of Montserrat is leading the charge to ensure that the island becomes a fully enabled ICT society able to attract high value businesses and jobs for its people\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Tuesday, 25 September 2012<\/h3>\n<\/a>Cell Phone Trade-in Expected to Help Rid Market of 2300 Outdated Models, 250,000 Mobile Phones<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 BTC customers using cell phones that do little more than handle conversation will be able to trade them in for phones that do just about everything but guarantee happiness with a 10-day trade-in-and-up campaign aimed at ridding The Bahamas of some 2,300 models of antiquated phones\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
AMS-IX To Assume CAR-IX Management And Operations<\/h4>\nCuracao <\/em>\u2013 The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) takes responsibility for the management and operations of the Caribbean Internet Exchange (CAR-IX) and rebrands it to AMS-IX Caribbean\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Alleged Internet hacker for court today<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Ronald Oates, the man believed to be the mastermind of a computer hacking extortion ring, is expected to appear in court today on an additional charge\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Wednesday, 26 September 2012<\/h3>\nCopper Thieves Continue to Plague APUA<\/h4>\n
Antigua & Barbuda<\/em> \u2013 The police are yet again inundated with a number of reports of theft of copper wire from cell sites belonging to Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC launches unique trade-in offer<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 BTC customers using cell phones that do little more than handle conversations will be able to trade them in for phones that do just about everything but guarantee happiness, with a 10-day trade-in-and-up campaign aimed at ridding The Bahamas of some 2,300 models of antiquated phones\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Call Termination Cuts \u2018A Beautiful Thing\u2019<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 A rival telecommunications provider yesterday said it was \u201c100 per cent behind\u201d plans to cut the Bahamas Telecommunications Company\u2019s (BTC) call termination rates by up to 60 per cent, telling Tribune Business the proposed 2 cents per minute slash for 2013 was \u201ca beautiful thing\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Telco Eyes Staff \u2018Tripling\u2019 Through 25% Revenue Rise<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 A niche Bahamian telecommunications operator yesterday said it planned to triple staff numbers by 2012 year-end, as it moves to \u2018ramp up\u2019 ahead of an expected 25 per cent year-over-year revenue increase in 2013\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Columbus Closes Acquisition of TeleBarbados and Tele St. Lucia<\/h4>\nBarbados<\/em> \u2013 Columbus International Inc. (“Columbus”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of TeleBarbados Inc. and Tele St. Lucia Inc\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Vietnamese mobile operator to launch in Dominican Republic<\/h4>\nDominican Republic <\/em>\u2013 Vietnamese mobile operator Viettel plans to launch mobile voice and internet services in the Dominican Republic, according to press reports\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Thursday, 27 September 2012<\/h3>\nBahamians Say No To Rise In Cable Price<\/h4>\n
Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Bahamians are \u201cprimarily against\u201d Cable Bahamas\u2019 proposed price increase, according to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority\u2019s CEO who was remarking on the corporation\u2019s most recent town hall meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC Targets Early 2013 For System \u201810x Faster\u2019 Than 4G<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) plans to introduce its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network within the first three months of 2013, the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business yesterday that the full roll-out would require 12-18 months\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC to launch TV\u2008trial early 2013<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to enter the trial phase of its much-anticipated television product early next year\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Blink \/ bmobile telecoms stimulus<\/h4>\nTrinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has taken yet another bold step in its quest to deliver more cost effective, value-added and hassle free services to customers with the re-launch of an enhanced business suite of services\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Friday, 28 September 2012<\/h3>\nBTC To Invest $20-$30m To Bring NGN ‘To Market’<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to be \u201cwell positioned\u201d to win back market share in the fixed-line Internet broadband market via its Next Generation Network (NGN), the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business it will invest a further $20-$30 million \u201cto bring it to market\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Dividends not declared at Telemedia AGM<\/h4>\nBelize<\/em> \u2013 Speculation on whether or not dividends will be declared at the tonight\u2019s annual general meeting of Belize Telemedia Limited is over\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Will BTL Defy CCJ?<\/h4>\nBelize <\/em>\u2013 Court says telecom company must wait to issue dividends; Board Chair, Net Vasquez, says company will \u201cdeal with agenda\u201d for meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Scammers didn’t hack systems says LIME<\/h4>\nCayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 In the wake of a text message sent directly to LIME customers’ telephones across Cayman on Wednesday declaring that everyone had won $500,000 from scammers in Thailand, the local phone company said its systems had not been compromised\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Karib Cable Introduces New Channels<\/h4>\nSt. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Digicel plan to sell El Salvador interests rejected by regulator<\/h4>\nEl Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
___________<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roundup of the ICT\/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 24 September to Sunday 30 September 2012. Monday, 24 September 2012 BTC Concerned Over URCA\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82,17,11,6,19,77,18],"tags":[105,36,48,55,78,12,91],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-business","category-caribbean","category-ict-tech","category-internet","category-mobile-telecoms-2","category-news","category-telecoms-2","tag-cybercrimecybersecurity","tag-devices","tag-infrastructure","tag-mergers-acquisitions","tag-news-roundup","tag-regulation","tag-subscriber-tv","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iE1G-1g8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Montserrat <\/em>\u2013 The government of Montserrat is leading the charge to ensure that the island becomes a fully enabled ICT society able to attract high value businesses and jobs for its people\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Tuesday, 25 September 2012<\/h3>\n<\/a>Cell Phone Trade-in Expected to Help Rid Market of 2300 Outdated Models, 250,000 Mobile Phones<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 BTC customers using cell phones that do little more than handle conversation will be able to trade them in for phones that do just about everything but guarantee happiness with a 10-day trade-in-and-up campaign aimed at ridding The Bahamas of some 2,300 models of antiquated phones\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"http:\/\/www.eleutheranews.com\/\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ict-pulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BTCLogo-The-Eleutheran.jpg\" "\\"BTCLogo")
<\/a>Cell Phone Trade-in Expected to Help Rid Market of 2300 Outdated Models, 250,000 Mobile Phones<\/h4>\nCuracao <\/em>\u2013 The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) takes responsibility for the management and operations of the Caribbean Internet Exchange (CAR-IX) and rebrands it to AMS-IX Caribbean\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Alleged Internet hacker for court today<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Ronald Oates, the man believed to be the mastermind of a computer hacking extortion ring, is expected to appear in court today on an additional charge\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Wednesday, 26 September 2012<\/h3>\nCopper Thieves Continue to Plague APUA<\/h4>\n
Antigua & Barbuda<\/em> \u2013 The police are yet again inundated with a number of reports of theft of copper wire from cell sites belonging to Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Copper Thieves Continue to Plague APUA<\/h4>\n
Antigua & Barbuda<\/em> \u2013 The police are yet again inundated with a number of reports of theft of copper wire from cell sites belonging to Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC launches unique trade-in offer<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 BTC customers using cell phones that do little more than handle conversations will be able to trade them in for phones that do just about everything but guarantee happiness, with a 10-day trade-in-and-up campaign aimed at ridding The Bahamas of some 2,300 models of antiquated phones\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Call Termination Cuts \u2018A Beautiful Thing\u2019<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 A rival telecommunications provider yesterday said it was \u201c100 per cent behind\u201d plans to cut the Bahamas Telecommunications Company\u2019s (BTC) call termination rates by up to 60 per cent, telling Tribune Business the proposed 2 cents per minute slash for 2013 was \u201ca beautiful thing\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Telco Eyes Staff \u2018Tripling\u2019 Through 25% Revenue Rise<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 A niche Bahamian telecommunications operator yesterday said it planned to triple staff numbers by 2012 year-end, as it moves to \u2018ramp up\u2019 ahead of an expected 25 per cent year-over-year revenue increase in 2013\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Columbus Closes Acquisition of TeleBarbados and Tele St. Lucia<\/h4>\nBarbados<\/em> \u2013 Columbus International Inc. (“Columbus”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of TeleBarbados Inc. and Tele St. Lucia Inc\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Vietnamese mobile operator to launch in Dominican Republic<\/h4>\nDominican Republic <\/em>\u2013 Vietnamese mobile operator Viettel plans to launch mobile voice and internet services in the Dominican Republic, according to press reports\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Thursday, 27 September 2012<\/h3>\nBahamians Say No To Rise In Cable Price<\/h4>\n
Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Bahamians are \u201cprimarily against\u201d Cable Bahamas\u2019 proposed price increase, according to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority\u2019s CEO who was remarking on the corporation\u2019s most recent town hall meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC Targets Early 2013 For System \u201810x Faster\u2019 Than 4G<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) plans to introduce its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network within the first three months of 2013, the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business yesterday that the full roll-out would require 12-18 months\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC to launch TV\u2008trial early 2013<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to enter the trial phase of its much-anticipated television product early next year\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Blink \/ bmobile telecoms stimulus<\/h4>\nTrinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has taken yet another bold step in its quest to deliver more cost effective, value-added and hassle free services to customers with the re-launch of an enhanced business suite of services\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Friday, 28 September 2012<\/h3>\nBTC To Invest $20-$30m To Bring NGN ‘To Market’<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to be \u201cwell positioned\u201d to win back market share in the fixed-line Internet broadband market via its Next Generation Network (NGN), the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business it will invest a further $20-$30 million \u201cto bring it to market\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Dividends not declared at Telemedia AGM<\/h4>\nBelize<\/em> \u2013 Speculation on whether or not dividends will be declared at the tonight\u2019s annual general meeting of Belize Telemedia Limited is over\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Will BTL Defy CCJ?<\/h4>\nBelize <\/em>\u2013 Court says telecom company must wait to issue dividends; Board Chair, Net Vasquez, says company will \u201cdeal with agenda\u201d for meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Scammers didn’t hack systems says LIME<\/h4>\nCayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 In the wake of a text message sent directly to LIME customers’ telephones across Cayman on Wednesday declaring that everyone had won $500,000 from scammers in Thailand, the local phone company said its systems had not been compromised\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Karib Cable Introduces New Channels<\/h4>\nSt. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Digicel plan to sell El Salvador interests rejected by regulator<\/h4>\nEl Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 A rival telecommunications provider yesterday said it was \u201c100 per cent behind\u201d plans to cut the Bahamas Telecommunications Company\u2019s (BTC) call termination rates by up to 60 per cent, telling Tribune Business the proposed 2 cents per minute slash for 2013 was \u201ca beautiful thing\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Telco Eyes Staff \u2018Tripling\u2019 Through 25% Revenue Rise<\/h4>\nBahamas<\/em> \u2013 A niche Bahamian telecommunications operator yesterday said it planned to triple staff numbers by 2012 year-end, as it moves to \u2018ramp up\u2019 ahead of an expected 25 per cent year-over-year revenue increase in 2013\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Columbus Closes Acquisition of TeleBarbados and Tele St. Lucia<\/h4>\nBarbados<\/em> \u2013 Columbus International Inc. (“Columbus”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of TeleBarbados Inc. and Tele St. Lucia Inc\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Vietnamese mobile operator to launch in Dominican Republic<\/h4>\nDominican Republic <\/em>\u2013 Vietnamese mobile operator Viettel plans to launch mobile voice and internet services in the Dominican Republic, according to press reports\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Thursday, 27 September 2012<\/h3>\nBahamians Say No To Rise In Cable Price<\/h4>\n
Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Bahamians are \u201cprimarily against\u201d Cable Bahamas\u2019 proposed price increase, according to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority\u2019s CEO who was remarking on the corporation\u2019s most recent town hall meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC Targets Early 2013 For System \u201810x Faster\u2019 Than 4G<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) plans to introduce its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network within the first three months of 2013, the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business yesterday that the full roll-out would require 12-18 months\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC to launch TV\u2008trial early 2013<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to enter the trial phase of its much-anticipated television product early next year\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Blink \/ bmobile telecoms stimulus<\/h4>\nTrinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has taken yet another bold step in its quest to deliver more cost effective, value-added and hassle free services to customers with the re-launch of an enhanced business suite of services\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Friday, 28 September 2012<\/h3>\nBTC To Invest $20-$30m To Bring NGN ‘To Market’<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to be \u201cwell positioned\u201d to win back market share in the fixed-line Internet broadband market via its Next Generation Network (NGN), the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business it will invest a further $20-$30 million \u201cto bring it to market\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Dividends not declared at Telemedia AGM<\/h4>\nBelize<\/em> \u2013 Speculation on whether or not dividends will be declared at the tonight\u2019s annual general meeting of Belize Telemedia Limited is over\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Will BTL Defy CCJ?<\/h4>\nBelize <\/em>\u2013 Court says telecom company must wait to issue dividends; Board Chair, Net Vasquez, says company will \u201cdeal with agenda\u201d for meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Scammers didn’t hack systems says LIME<\/h4>\nCayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 In the wake of a text message sent directly to LIME customers’ telephones across Cayman on Wednesday declaring that everyone had won $500,000 from scammers in Thailand, the local phone company said its systems had not been compromised\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Karib Cable Introduces New Channels<\/h4>\nSt. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Digicel plan to sell El Salvador interests rejected by regulator<\/h4>\nEl Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
___________<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roundup of the ICT\/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 24 September to Sunday 30 September 2012. Monday, 24 September 2012 BTC Concerned Over URCA\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82,17,11,6,19,77,18],"tags":[105,36,48,55,78,12,91],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-business","category-caribbean","category-ict-tech","category-internet","category-mobile-telecoms-2","category-news","category-telecoms-2","tag-cybercrimecybersecurity","tag-devices","tag-infrastructure","tag-mergers-acquisitions","tag-news-roundup","tag-regulation","tag-subscriber-tv","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iE1G-1g8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Telco Eyes Staff \u2018Tripling\u2019 Through 25% Revenue Rise<\/h4>\nBarbados<\/em> \u2013 Columbus International Inc. (“Columbus”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of TeleBarbados Inc. and Tele St. Lucia Inc\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Vietnamese mobile operator to launch in Dominican Republic<\/h4>\nDominican Republic <\/em>\u2013 Vietnamese mobile operator Viettel plans to launch mobile voice and internet services in the Dominican Republic, according to press reports\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Thursday, 27 September 2012<\/h3>\nBahamians Say No To Rise In Cable Price<\/h4>\n
Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Bahamians are \u201cprimarily against\u201d Cable Bahamas\u2019 proposed price increase, according to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority\u2019s CEO who was remarking on the corporation\u2019s most recent town hall meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Bahamians Say No To Rise In Cable Price<\/h4>\n
Bahamas<\/em> \u2013 Bahamians are \u201cprimarily against\u201d Cable Bahamas\u2019 proposed price increase, according to the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority\u2019s CEO who was remarking on the corporation\u2019s most recent town hall meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC Targets Early 2013 For System \u201810x Faster\u2019 Than 4G<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) plans to introduce its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network within the first three months of 2013, the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business yesterday that the full roll-out would require 12-18 months\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
BTC to launch TV\u2008trial early 2013<\/h4>\nBahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to enter the trial phase of its much-anticipated television product early next year\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Blink \/ bmobile telecoms stimulus<\/h4>\nTrinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has taken yet another bold step in its quest to deliver more cost effective, value-added and hassle free services to customers with the re-launch of an enhanced business suite of services\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Friday, 28 September 2012<\/h3>\nBTC To Invest $20-$30m To Bring NGN ‘To Market’<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to be \u201cwell positioned\u201d to win back market share in the fixed-line Internet broadband market via its Next Generation Network (NGN), the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business it will invest a further $20-$30 million \u201cto bring it to market\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Dividends not declared at Telemedia AGM<\/h4>\nBelize<\/em> \u2013 Speculation on whether or not dividends will be declared at the tonight\u2019s annual general meeting of Belize Telemedia Limited is over\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Will BTL Defy CCJ?<\/h4>\nBelize <\/em>\u2013 Court says telecom company must wait to issue dividends; Board Chair, Net Vasquez, says company will \u201cdeal with agenda\u201d for meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Scammers didn’t hack systems says LIME<\/h4>\nCayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 In the wake of a text message sent directly to LIME customers’ telephones across Cayman on Wednesday declaring that everyone had won $500,000 from scammers in Thailand, the local phone company said its systems had not been compromised\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Karib Cable Introduces New Channels<\/h4>\nSt. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Digicel plan to sell El Salvador interests rejected by regulator<\/h4>\nEl Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
___________<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roundup of the ICT\/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 24 September to Sunday 30 September 2012. Monday, 24 September 2012 BTC Concerned Over URCA\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82,17,11,6,19,77,18],"tags":[105,36,48,55,78,12,91],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-business","category-caribbean","category-ict-tech","category-internet","category-mobile-telecoms-2","category-news","category-telecoms-2","tag-cybercrimecybersecurity","tag-devices","tag-infrastructure","tag-mergers-acquisitions","tag-news-roundup","tag-regulation","tag-subscriber-tv","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iE1G-1g8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to enter the trial phase of its much-anticipated television product early next year\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Blink \/ bmobile telecoms stimulus<\/h4>\nTrinidad & Tobago<\/em> \u2013 Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has taken yet another bold step in its quest to deliver more cost effective, value-added and hassle free services to customers with the re-launch of an enhanced business suite of services\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Friday, 28 September 2012<\/h3>\nBTC To Invest $20-$30m To Bring NGN ‘To Market’<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to be \u201cwell positioned\u201d to win back market share in the fixed-line Internet broadband market via its Next Generation Network (NGN), the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business it will invest a further $20-$30 million \u201cto bring it to market\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Blink \/ bmobile telecoms stimulus<\/h4>\nBTC To Invest $20-$30m To Bring NGN ‘To Market’<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) expects to be \u201cwell positioned\u201d to win back market share in the fixed-line Internet broadband market via its Next Generation Network (NGN), the company\u2019s chief executive telling Tribune Business it will invest a further $20-$30 million \u201cto bring it to market\u201d\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Dividends not declared at Telemedia AGM<\/h4>\nBelize<\/em> \u2013 Speculation on whether or not dividends will be declared at the tonight\u2019s annual general meeting of Belize Telemedia Limited is over\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Will BTL Defy CCJ?<\/h4>\nBelize <\/em>\u2013 Court says telecom company must wait to issue dividends; Board Chair, Net Vasquez, says company will \u201cdeal with agenda\u201d for meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Scammers didn’t hack systems says LIME<\/h4>\nCayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 In the wake of a text message sent directly to LIME customers’ telephones across Cayman on Wednesday declaring that everyone had won $500,000 from scammers in Thailand, the local phone company said its systems had not been compromised\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Karib Cable Introduces New Channels<\/h4>\nSt. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Digicel plan to sell El Salvador interests rejected by regulator<\/h4>\nEl Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
___________<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roundup of the ICT\/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 24 September to Sunday 30 September 2012. Monday, 24 September 2012 BTC Concerned Over URCA\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82,17,11,6,19,77,18],"tags":[105,36,48,55,78,12,91],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-business","category-caribbean","category-ict-tech","category-internet","category-mobile-telecoms-2","category-news","category-telecoms-2","tag-cybercrimecybersecurity","tag-devices","tag-infrastructure","tag-mergers-acquisitions","tag-news-roundup","tag-regulation","tag-subscriber-tv","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iE1G-1g8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Dividends not declared at Telemedia AGM<\/h4>\nBelize <\/em>\u2013 Court says telecom company must wait to issue dividends; Board Chair, Net Vasquez, says company will \u201cdeal with agenda\u201d for meeting\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Scammers didn’t hack systems says LIME<\/h4>\nCayman Islands<\/em> \u2013 In the wake of a text message sent directly to LIME customers’ telephones across Cayman on Wednesday declaring that everyone had won $500,000 from scammers in Thailand, the local phone company said its systems had not been compromised\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Karib Cable Introduces New Channels<\/h4>\nSt. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Digicel plan to sell El Salvador interests rejected by regulator<\/h4>\nEl Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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St. Vincent & the Grenadines<\/em> \u2013 HBO Latin America Group (LAG) and Karib Cable formally announced that both Companies have signed an agreement for the transmission of the HBO LAG channels to be broadcasted in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, beginning October 1st\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Saturday, 29 September 2012<\/h3>\n\u00a0BTC CEO: $42.8 Million Investment in Mobile Upgrades Drives 800% Increase in Data Usage<\/h4>\n
Bahamas <\/em>\u2013 Customers living, working or vacationing in The Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction, thanks to an 18-month, $42.8 million mobile network upgrade by BTC that has catapulted the local telecom environment ahead of many parts of the world\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
El Salvador<\/em> \u2013 A plan by Denis O\u2019Brien\u2019s Digicel mobile phone group to sell its business in El Salvador to a company owned by wealthy Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim has once again been rejected by the regulator there\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Sunday, 30 September 2012<\/h3>\nGT&T hails former CEO<\/h4>\n
Guyana<\/em> \u2013 Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T)\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Intcomex Deal Creates Powerful Sales Network For LIME<\/h4>\nJamaica<\/em> \u2013 Telecoms provider LIME has brokered a deal with American company Intcomex that will expand its local sales outlets for BlackBerry and Samsung smartphones by a multiple of 12\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Social Media Policy to be in-place by Early Next Year<\/h4>\nJamaica <\/em>\u2013 By early next year there should be a full-fledged social media policy in place, with guidelines for order and professionalism in Government\u2026 more<\/a><\/p>\n
Image credits: Gary Thomson<\/a> (flickr); \u00a0The Eleutheran<\/a>; \u00a0Jazztell\u00a0Bahamas<\/a>; TSTT<\/a>; \u00a0Belize Web<\/a>; \u00a0CNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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