{"id":7807,"date":"2011-04-15T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2011-04-15T08:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:59:28","slug":"urca-dismisses-btcs-concerns-as-self-serving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/urca-dismisses-btcs-concerns-as-self-serving","title":{"rendered":"URCA Dismisses BTC&#8217;s Concerns As Self-Serving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Telecommunications Company&#8217;s (BTC) complaints of &#8216;heavy handed&#8217; regulation and &#8220;onerous&#8221; retail pricing rules have been dismissed by the sector regulator as &#8220;self-serving and not in the interest of competition&#8221;, expressing doubt over whether the newly-privatised company can facilitate price cap regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to BTC&#8217;s criticisms in feedback to its three-year strategy, the Utilities Regulation &amp; Competition Authority (URCA) rejected its concerns over the retail pricing rules, denying &#8220;that they inhibit BTC from responding to changing circumstances&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Telecommunications Company&#8217;s complaints of &#8216;heavy handed&#8217; regulation have been dismissed by the sector regulator as &#8220;self-serving and not in the interest of competition&#8221;<\/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":[36,43],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","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=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}