Yes the service has improved significantly under Mr. Leon Williams. Not that the problem has been fixed will he be allowed to keep his job.

Hmm...I don't think he has anything to do with it, unless he personally built and installed and paid for additional cell towers. Geoff Houston was equally as capable and over the same time would have gotten same results. If anyone believes his appointment was anything but political they need to do a serious rethink. The Bahamas is a strange bird, we prefer to have political cronies instead of qualified persons controlling our most precious resources. The government feeds the people the most nonsensical premises and they swallow it hook line and sinker.

(Case in point, Brave Davis is an insult to our collective intelligence)

Yep ........... C&W bit off more than they could chew with Batelco (its still Batelco at heart) ................... Letters and gimmicks do not change culture

Geoff Houston got fired because he could not fix the problem despite the millions that was spent. That among other things where others at BTC were fired or asked to resign. Leon Williams was brought in on a short contract with the understanding that he could fix the cell problem. He made adjustments to the system installed additional towers and the dropped calls have dropped significantly and other problems on the network have been corrected. Geoff Houston had four years and could not get the system to work even to a satisfactory level. Some of the equipment he installed had to be replaced. He was fired after some twenty plus years at Cable and Wireless! You sound rather dumb or prejudice when you say that unless the CEO of a multimillion dollar company "personally built and installed and paid for towers" he was not responsible for fixing the system. Did Geoff Houston personally build or install or personally pay for anything at BTC before he was fired? This is 2015. Incredibly Unbelievable!!

Nope, Geoff Houston was fired as a bligh to the powers that be, to think otherwise is unbelievable. In fact many are raising questions about persons (who also left under dubious circumstances) but have since been brought back on to staff by the "savior".

Did Geoff Houston personally install a cell tower. No. I see you got the point. A five year old could have ordered installation of additional towers to cause a reduction in dropped calls.

Also remember the government wields tremendous influence over decisions at BTC. The fact that Mr Williams leads means nothing, he was also leading in the pre Ingraham days when THEFT was sky high.

“the time for talking about it is over.”, Yes Sir, the time for talking is long past, give us our next cell provider so we have a choice and competition in the market. Bahamians have been ripped off by government via BTC for far to long. Make a decision, if you are capable! There is NO reason for delay except ineptitude or graft.

this wutless jackass talking bout dropped calls when people still gettin killed in the gaadamn street !!!

i truly do despair.

You can't make this up. The P.M. is criticizing "policy makers"????

This is the same fellow who dictatorially runs the party in power which screwed up the privatization of BEC for years in a purely politically motivated, phony side show about getting 51% public ownership, when everyone knows that public ownership was and is the whole problem here???

This is the guy who then, as if it was an afterthought, has screwed up the licensing of a competitor for BEC (the whole point behind privatization in the first place) by adding as a last minute afterthought, the condition that the government would have to own 51% of any new telecommunications entrant????

This guy is complaining that the Bahamas is way behind in broadband and telecommunications development. Does he think everyone is just plain stupid????

What a joke!!

*Hmm...I don't think he has anything to do with it, unless he personally built and installed and paid for additional cell towers*

Still the joke of the day!

Oh you didn't get the point.... None so blind....

Kind of scary that PGC thinks he should be taking over Investor Relations for BTC as well, after he tried to do so for Baha Mar. He starts to look more and more like Chavez/Maduro in Venezuela or Correa (Ecuador).

Nero fiddles, while Rome burns.

Leon exist because he in Bahamian and has every talk show number and most importantly we need someone that looks like us to fire us - He is mediocre at best and has brought no advance to BTC or telecommunications in the bahamas or the region. The solution should have come with liberalization but we already figured out how to screw that up #SMFT Go fix it Dear Perry - 6k missed calls and still dead spots on a small island with barely a hill

You noticed? I have never seen a CEO so interested in self promotion in my life. Days before more than 100 of his workers were about to be fired, he was on air cackling and alternately patting himself and the PM on the back for an entire hour, not one word of sympathy for the workers about to be released.

He's adopted the extremely troubling trend being used by the present government," the marketing campaign is more important than the reality".

The only reason they have not named the new cell provider is because they want to get their hands on 51% of the company that gets the license. Why if you have a company that is already 100% Bahamian owned and the only real contender must government own 51%. Who in their right mind would set up a company, put up all of the capital, do all of the leg work and then just hand over 51% majority of said company to a corrupt government? Is there anyone that stupid? Perry and his band of thieves will rot in hell for their rape of The Bahamas!

Fewer calls being made, less calls to drop

And more use of Whatsapp and other such apps ............... BTC eats your minutes before u even get on to the call ................ still too expensive

I call Bullshit on the 6000 number. I had 3 dropped calls to one party last night and had to call another party back twice due to garbled connection all within 1/2 hour. BTC sucks and rips the people off as you know I got charged a minute for those 5 calls each. If BTC was Old Yeller they would have been taken to the wood shed and shot a long time ago.

Ask the Reverend Patrick Adderley, who was on the board at the time that Leon Williams was fired. Julian Francis recused himself as Chairman because of his connections to the events that led to Williams being fired. Adderley was the acting chair of the board of directors when the decision was made. There is one word that was driving the firing of Williams. It's a ten letter word. It starts with a C and ends with an N, and the last syllable rhymes with 'shun' and the word has a couple of R's in it.

Patrick Adderley is a man of the cloth, and a principled man, and he held the key to Williams' firing.