{"id":9444,"date":"2011-06-15T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T00:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:34:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T00:34:31","slug":"btc-rate-reductions-coming-soon-to-a-cell-phone-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/btc-rate-reductions-coming-soon-to-a-cell-phone-near-you","title":{"rendered":"BTC Rate Reductions Coming Soon to a Cell Phone Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9447\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"geoff-houston\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/geoff-houston-250x160.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Houston\" width=\"250\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/geoff-houston-250x160.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/geoff-houston-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/geoff-houston.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Rate reductions for mobile  services could come as early as July as Cable and Wireless  Communications (CWC) begins to roll out some of its plans for the  Bahamas Telecommunications Company, BTC CEO Geoff Houston announced  yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The rate reductions depend on approval from the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re expecting to see the first big change in our mobile rates in  July,\u201d said Houston at a press conference at BTC\u2019s John F. Kennedy Drive  headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to tell you what they are today but unfortunately we  have yet to get final approval from URCA. But suffice it to say we are  really excited that we will start to really bring down the cost of  mobile calls in The Bahamas very, very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BTC\u2019s vice president of marketing Marlon Johnson noted that the  approval process takes about a month for rate reduction applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo starting at the end of June, you\u2019ll start to see us roll out promotions for rate adjustments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rate reductions for mobile services could come as early as July as Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) begins to roll out some of its plans for the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, BTC CEO Geoff Houston announced yesterday.<\/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":[3],"tags":[36,134,43],"class_list":["post-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc","tag-money","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444","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=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}