{"id":10673,"date":"2011-08-02T08:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2011-08-02T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:38:56","slug":"btc-to-eliminate-phone-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/btc-to-eliminate-phone-cards","title":{"rendered":"BTC To Eliminate Phone Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Telecommunications company is moving toward completely eliminating phone cards by 2014, in a move the company says will increase efficiency and place BTC in line with international practices.<\/p>\n<p>Marlon Johnson, vice president of sales and marketing, said they hope that by 2014, at least 80 per cent of the market will be cardless.<\/p>\n<p>BTC launched EZTOP-up on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson said BTC is also developing a &#8216;Pamper Card&#8217; for people who may not be comfortable giving their cell numbers to strangers.<\/p>\n<p>BTC is expected to announce in the coming weeks the business that will be partnering with them in this venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Telecommunications company aims to eliminate phone cards by 2014, which is expected to increase efficiency and place BTC in line with international practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,146,43],"class_list":["post-10673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc","tag-cable-wireless","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}