"Houston, we have a problem" (from 1955 movie Apollo 13).

It is apparent, at least to me ,that BTC has no back- up plan or contingency plans for when their services are interrupted and its customers will always be lft with handsets that say "sorry no service' or "no network available." Not tech savvy but i am sure that there is a means where BTC can upgrade its systems without causing mass outages to most of its customers, or ones that lasts for more than an hour or two. Restoration work can be scheduled for off hours to minimise interruptions.
Even BTC's marketing plan is like a chicken without a head because them seem uncertain as many of their marketing plans seem to overlap and even contridict each other.
They have phone card vendors and top up vendors selling their product below cost and seems to want to offer no relief to them. but competition will come..competition will come as soon as 2013

FIRST THERE UPGRADING A ANTIQUE SYSTEM AND SECOND COMPITION WILL COME IF PM PGC DOESN,T MESS W/ THE DEAL

Their exact term was ripping out an old platform to install a new one. So I'm wondering if this new platform is being installed, whats with the malfunctions already. Orrrr is it this platform is only NEW to the Bahamas.

Didn't read you post before I post mines but you're pretty much right.

Sabotage?

Stop imagining cause BTC sure wasn't bought off ebay. They knew just what they were getting into cause no one with a business head makes a blind purchase. You have the nerve to comment on the government runned staff, yet still mentioned how present staff needs to be updated and motivated, so wheres the difference. Why motivate someone to do their job; their pay should be all the motivation they need. Hope you dont work there cause you probably want a tip somehow if you're just a directory assistant. Then some of you talk about selling Bahamasair, guest then their disruption would be a plane crash, but because the flights leave on time and no baggage was lost, that would be another good sale. You got an upgrade on technology, thick, but all this islandwide failure shows what in dependabiliby.

IF THIS WAS SABOTAGE ,THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH TREASON ,,,WE CAN NOT SURVIVE WITH OUT DFI ....PM PGC IT MAY PLAY GOOD TO YOUR SUPPORTERS TO STRONG ARM CWC BUT HOW DOES IT LOOK TO OUTSIDE INVESTORS ,,IS THIS HOW YOU LOOK OUT FOR THE SMALL MAN CHASING AWAY FORIEGN INVESTMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fellow Bahamians, is it just me, or do we need more choices for our utilities? Both BEC and BTC need serious competition to become reliant. We need to fully open up the market for other service providers. Island-wide outages are unacceptable in this day and age.

We say we have infrastructure, but what infrastructure?

It should be a matter of "who is the best telephone service provider or who is the best choice for electricity?" NOT "you take what you get" WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS!

TRUE TALKS AUDITOR

There is more going here than meets the eye. Stay Tuned it will all come to a head soon enough

Our lack of foresight where we only have one mobile company and one Cable company. Add competition and this will stop like in other countries.

Why do we suffer from amnesia when it comes to competition?? Why wait years to have more than one mobile company?? If we do then dont compain if BTC cannot be reliable.

This will be a definite problem with only one company, because big companies always want to have more than one provider especially for internet, it is what they call peering because if you have two provider and one goes down the other will carry the load in the mean time. I guess if BEC goes down like they always do it probably will take both providers down anyway, but on a series note COB will probably need this to help them with university status, especially if they want to recruit students from around the world.

What does the scriptures have to say about all this: something to the effect that there will come a time when governments around the world will fail their people. They will be unable to meet the everyday damands of their citizens. Basic essentials like electricity, phone services, water, road (building) and other essential services will fail. Food will be in short supply (where is City Markets?) Many governments will also experience deep financial woes..sounds familiar? ( what is the national debt of the Bahamas? and what is the current fiscal deficit? does it ring a bell for... the USA? the Bahamas? Greece, other European nations? Even Switzerland experiencing financial problems And things are not going to get better, they are going to get worse..yes even crime..and what will this be a sign of? a sign that the end of this world as we know it is near..we are at the end of this earth's history..watch the changing weather patterns.dont just read your bible...experience it! John 3:16

It is call a cutover, when someone is moving from one network to another the first thing have to be done is testing the new network to make sure it works properly that is all circuit is functioning on the new network and then the cutover should be done in a time that won't really hurt business so I would say late at night or after normal business hours. A backout plan should be instituted in case something goes bad, which is the new circuit wouldn't come up for some reason, the backout plan should always be to revert back to the old system if it is taking to long. During the actual cutover they should have a few connects to move over from the old to the new maybe in this case it is a little different but that is pretty much the case and point, now once everything is move over from the old to the new it should come up and if it doesn't in the alloted time then go back to the old system and investigate the problem with new network before trying again at another time. It sound like we have bad project management (lack of planning)here as well as bad engineers and technicians.

You have to face it, this is a 3rd World country and it has the network to prove it!
Local power failed not BTC's problem but due to old equipment and bad maintenance the generators failed hence the blackout. old equipment doesn't like loss of power and takes time to recover.

PLP just need to open the doors for other providers to make a foot print in the bahamas bringing cheaper mobile costs and much needed jobs.

THE FNM ALREADY OPENED THE DOOR FOR COMPITION BTC, MONOPOLY ENDS IN 2013 / I THINK/

could this be a case of industrial sabotage carried out by both utility unions.could it also be they are conspiring with the government to give c and w a black eye in the court of public opinion.remember,this company was threatened by the plp while in opposition and the unions that the deal would not be allowed to stand.don't forget blue water[the ghost company] have not given up,and could now be making moves to run c & w out of town.what better time than now?

DON,T FORGET SHAME GIBSON STANDING UP IN THE HOUSE AND SAYING WE WILL PUT A TAX ON CELL PHONE USAGE IF CWC DONS,T DO WHAT THEY WANT ,,THE ONLY THING PGC CAN GIVE THEM TO GET MAJORITY BACK IS A LONGER MONOPOLY ,,BOTH MEAN HIGHER RATES TO US ,,THIS IS NO WAY TO TREAT A INVESTOR BUT THEIR UNEDUCATED SUPPORTORS LOVE THE WHIP THE FORIEGNER ,WHITEY ,ROUTINE EVEN IF IT TAKES US RIGHT TO THE POOR HOUSE ,,IF I WAS A FORIEGNER AND SAW THIS I WOULD LET MY MONEY SIT IN ONE OF OUR BANKS GETTING RESONABLE INTEREST BEFORE I INVEST IN ANY THING HERE

The Grandmaster of shamelessness and potcake boy who gone to BEC,they gat a slick game going on them jackasses.bet you they building up their personal wealth big time, all that nationalist talk they always flipin off their tongue sure making some black bahamians head dizzy.Foreigners investors are not buying that foolishness.in fact i think they laughing at how potcake brain so many of us are. An old Grand Master once told me that money goes where money lie,figure that out.