{"id":26773,"date":"2012-10-10T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26773"},"modified":"2012-10-10T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:30:27","slug":"btc-launches-iphone-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/btc-launches-iphone-packages","title":{"rendered":"BTC Launches iPhone Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/btc-launches-iphone-packages-26773.html\/apple-iphone-5-phone-review-0\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26775\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26775\" title=\"apple-iphone-5-phone-review-0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/apple-iphone-5-phone-review-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/apple-iphone-5-phone-review-0.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/apple-iphone-5-phone-review-0-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) executives are seeking to significantly increase revenues generated from the company\u2019s data-related services.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the telecommunications company began offering its customers Apple iPhones with an annual data plan that includes voice, data and text.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is part of our strategy \u2013 looking at expanding our customer base and loyalty,\u201d said Jerome Sawyer, BTC\u2019s senior public relations manager, of the new offerings by BTC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor instance, with the iPhone, it requires a 12-month contract. A lot of our data packages require contracts and that is because we are building consistent revenue from our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BTC has made several adjustments to its network in order to address increased demand for new services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs apart of our upgrade, we\u2019ve been able to increase our data capacity by about 400 percent and what we have found since upgrading our network, every time we expand, the capacity increases as well as the demand increases,\u201d Sawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn essence, we have had to upgrade the network three times in this year alone to accommodate the growth and demand for data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BTC is offering the latest iPhones available in the region, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple has only released the iPhone 5 in limited jurisdictions,\u201d Sawyer noted, \u201cnone of which are in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe iPhone and other smartphones are changing the way we live with multiple apps that can be tailored to fit our lifestyles, no matter where that might be in The Bahamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new plans range in size and price, including plans that cost $41, $66, $82, $127, or pay as you go (prepaid).<\/p>\n<p>Sawyer warned that under BTC\u2019s agreement with Apple, the company will not activate iPhones that are not purchased from the BTC store.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Scieska Adderley<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Guardian Business Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) began offering its customers Apple iPhones with an annual data plan that includes voice, data and text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[15],"tags":[213,36],"class_list":["post-26773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-btc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26773","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}