{"id":6580,"date":"2011-02-23T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2011-02-23T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:07:48","slug":"digicel-submarine-cable-to-link-jamaica-with-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/digicel-submarine-cable-to-link-jamaica-with-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Digicel Submarine Cable to Link Jamaica with Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digicel has been granted a licence that will allow it to connect  undersea fibre cable to neighbouring Haiti and the Bahamas from Jamaica,  but the group is still planning the implementation of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican Office of the Utilities Regulations (OUR), in its business plan for  2011-2014, said it had received applications for two submarine cable  carrier licences, which were processed and recommendations sent to the  Office of the Prime minister.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story\">Yesterday, Digicel said it can confirm that the licence was issued but,  in a written response to queries, added that &#8220;We are  still in the planning phase and as such, we will not be providing any  further information at this point&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digicel has been granted a licence that will allow it to connect undersea fibre cable to neighbouring Haiti and the Bahamas from Jamaica, but the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[100,58,43],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-caribbean-2","tag-jamaica","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}