{"id":6312,"date":"2011-02-14T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2011-02-14T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:59:07","slug":"urca-to-review-btccwc-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/urca-to-review-btccwc-deal","title":{"rendered":"URCA To Review BTC\/CWC Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An assessment will be conducted by the Utilities and Regulation and  Competition Authority (URCA) on the sale of the 51 percent shareholding  in the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) to Cable and Wireless  Communications (CWC), with several areas to be reviewed before final  approval.<\/p>\n<p>The review conducted by the regulatory body will focus on several areas,  including how the privatization of BTC will affect competition in the  sector.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from URCA said: \u201cAs neither of the parties to the  transaction nor BTC is involved in broadcasting or publishing  newspapers, the question to be determined by URCA is whether the  transaction would have or is likely to have the effect of a substantial  lessening of competition in a market in The Bahamas. \u201cIn assessing the  competition effects of the transaction, URCA\u2019s assessment will include  the review of issues such as the definition of the relevant market, what  would happen in the absence of this transaction (known as the  \u2018counterfactual\u2019), the potential efficiencies and consumer benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assessment will be conducted by the Utilities and Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) on the sale of the 51 percent of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) to Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[12],"tags":[36,40,43],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-btc","tag-government","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}